Australian coins

I am new to forum and would linke to make contact with members interested in australian coins and australian bullion coins.
Richard

 

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g'day mate.

I've a goodly few aussie coins (pre decimal) and a handful of modern bullion stuff. ('roos and kook's).

Ian

 

Thanks for the response. Am limited on time today will try to post pics this evening - The challenge is learning how to post my first pic. I see below I can attach a file but is it limited to size??
Richard
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I am a collector of australian coins, welcome and happy hunting!

 

I have a few. My wife picked them up at a sale and they came in a kangaroo fur coin purse !!

 

kangaroo fur coin purse

Don't tell your wife but if the coin purse has no seams than it is a kangaroo scrotum. Very popular souvenir.
Richard

 

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Thanks for letting me know I will mesaage you later have to run
Richard

 

I just got what appears to be an 1854 Penny today...

I have quite a few coins from Oz, though they are farily modern and probably rather common.

 

Tre,what appears to be an 1854 1 Penny is actually
one of the various Traders' Tokens that were issued,as there was a severe shortage of British coins.In a sense,the Traders' Tokens are Australia's first coins.Most of them were of 1 Penny (written as 1d.) & Half-penny (1/2 d.) denominations,but there were a few 3d. ones.The only issuer whose currency consisted solely of 3d.'s was Hogarth,Erichsen & Co. of Sydney,New South Wales.They issued tokens in 1858 & 1860.I have got one of the 1860's - the 'Rememberance' type.
Australia did also have its own proper coins as well -gold Sovereigns (1 Pound or 20 Shillings (20/-)) & 1/2 Sovereigns (10/-).The early ones have a distinctive reverse inscribed 'SYDNEY MINT'
with the crown at the top.The obverse of the Sydney Mint coins is also very distinctive to these coins.I have got an 1865 Sydney Mint 1/2 Sovereign.Later on,the St George Sovereign & 1/2 Sovereign was struck at Melbourne,Perth,& Sydney.

 

Yes, thank you for clearing that up. It didn't have the portrait of a monarch, which was my first clue that it wasn't what I first thought it was.

Actually, now that I have it in front of me, the date is 1859, there does not appear to be a denomination mark, and it reads "Peace & Plenty" above the Australian coat of arms. Does this change anything? (It was the same size color and style of British one penny pieces that lead me to assume that's what it was)

 

Tre,both Melbourne & Sydney issued tokens inscribed 'Peace & Plenty'.It is always the Melbourne ones that turn up.Most of the copper (later bronze) tokens did not have any indication of denomination,so the bearer had to work out the value from the size of the pieces.Here in New Zealand,there was also a Traders' Token series as well.There was only one trader in my home town of Wanganui who issued tokens - an undated 1/2 d. &
an undated 1d. Here in Wellington,there is one trader who issued tokens in the 19th Century that is still in existence - Kirkcaldie & Stains,which is a top of the line department store.They also issued an undated 1/2 d. & an undated 1d.My late friend,
Bill Lampard,F.R.N.S.N.Z. wrote a book on New Zealand coins,banknotes,& Traders' Tokens.His numbering system for the Traders' Tokens ('L' numbers) are very well known.The Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand is going to publish a new edition of Mr Lampard's book with new information added as a tribute to him.

 

I have got 2 of the key coins of the Aussie pre-decimal series - the 1921* 1/- & the 1932 2/-.The 1932 2/- (florin) is the rarest date in Aussie 2/- next to the 1934-35 Victoria & Melbourne Centanary 2/-,which is also the only Aussie coin to have Percy Metcalfe's portrait of King George V.

 

Qantas

As my brother in law is a pilot for QANTAS I will be on the next flight and the nest word you will hear are "Stick em Up" He He HE
Needless to say, I'm jealous
Richard

 

Richard,the 1921* 1/- turned up in a Wellington Coin Club auction.I got it for around NZ$10.As to the 1932 2/-,this turned up in a collection that a friend of mine bought & ended up selling to my boss.I noticed this coin,so I told him,"I want to work for this coin".So I ended up getting it as payment for services rendered.

 

Richard,I recently picked up an Aussie 2004 50c. coin,which depicts 3 animals,which was designed in a kids' design a coin competition early last year.

 

Good on ya Mate

I'm gonna change you from a Kiwi to an Ocker any day now
How do you like the student coin?

 

It is a pleasing design.It is a pity that New Zealand has not followed in the same footsteps as British Commonwealth countries such as Canada,Aussie,
South Africa,India,etc.

 

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