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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Topcat7, post: 2385164, member: 73372&quot;]My latest purchase, and I am happy with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>A commemorative boxed set of coins, issued jointly by the Governments of Australia and the Netherlands in 2006, to celebrate the landing of the first European on the Australian continent 400 years earlier, in 1606; Willem Janszoon aboard the Duyfken.</p><p><br /></p><p>He actually thought it was part of New Guinea, and named it &quot;Nieu Zeland&quot; (don&#039;t tell the Kiwis) and it wasn&#039;t called &quot;New Holland&quot; until 1644, by Abel Tasman.</p><p>In 1770, the English Captain, James Cook named the continent &quot;New Wales&quot;, and revised that in 1788 to &quot;New South Wales&quot;.</p><p>It wasn&#039;t until 1804, that a British navigator, Matthew Flinders called the Continent &quot;Terra Australis&quot; and then &quot;Australia&quot;, that it got the name it is known by, today.</p><p><br /></p><p>(So, for 38 years Australia was known as Nieu Zeland - New Zealand.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]489356[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>AUSTRALIAN 5 Dollars (Silver)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]489359[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Netherlands 5 Euros (Silver)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]489362[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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