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Coincollect.com.au

Locality: Burleigh Heads, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5535 5894

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24.01.2022 Happy New Year Hope everyone had a great start to the Year. We are now back up and running and ready to look after your coin & banknote needs. New Stock arriving

06.01.2022 We have available the latest issues of coins coming out from the Royal Australia Mint. Let us know if you are chasing anything

03.01.2022 2013 $1 Silver Proof Holey Dollar and Dump - NOw Available in our Shop. To commemorate 200 years of the nation’s first official currency, the Royal Australian Mint’s 2013 mintmark and privy mark coin program will feature a replica of the Holey Dollar and Dump as the basis of design. The Holey Dollar and Dump were introduced to stamp out the corrupt rum trade and provide the first official currency for the fledgling colony of New South Wales.In 1812, Governor Lachlan Macquari...e arranged for a special shipment of 40,000 Spanish dollars to arrive in Australia and set pardoned forger William Henshall to work fashioning the new currency. Henshall was able to develop his own minting technology with the limited resources of the colony at the time and he marked his work by placing the initial ‘H’ on some of the dies produced. Now rare and valuable, the original coins were in circulation between 1813 and1819 See more