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PCGS Registry Sets Containing Highest Graded Coins

Posted on April 3, 2015 by msn

If you’re a participant in any PCGS Registry Sets then you would have received an interesting email today from BJ Searls, the PCGS manager of the Set Registry. PCGS are introducing bonus points for the so-called ‘finest graded’ coins. Basically,…

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2015 Gold Plated 50 Cent Open Day Release

Posted on February 24, 2015 by msn

There’s been an interesting development regarding the gold plated 2015 50 cent coin we mentioned in this blog entry. Released for the 50th birthday of the Royal Australian Mint the coin will have a total mintage of 22265 (mirroring the…

Posted in Coin News, Collecting Coins

Adelaide Assay Office Ingot from the Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia

Posted on January 31, 2015 by msn

Above you can see an Adelaide Assay Office Ingot from the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia. We were lucky enough to have seen this amazing piece of Australian numismatic history on our visit to the Art Gallery…

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Counterfeit Australian 1928 Silver Shillings

Posted on January 18, 2015 by msn

Above you can see what appears to be, on first glance, a well worn Australian shilling from 1928. In fact, what you can see above is a well worn silver disc purporting to be a 1928 shilling. It is a…

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Australian 1983 50 Cent Sets Price Record

Posted on October 11, 2014 by msn

On the evening of 9 October 2014 on the online coin auction site Numisbid an Australian 1983 50 cent set a price record of $3,403.50. You can see the Numisbid images…

Posted in Collecting Coins, Investing in Coins

Numismatic Items in the South Australian Maritime Museum

Posted on October 11, 2014 by msn

One of your authors (and two children) had the opportunity to visit the South Australian Maritime Museum on Lipson Street, Port Adelaide recently and as well as being very interesting, the displays included a number of numismatic items. Always keen…

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Downies Australian Coin Auction #317

Posted on July 12, 2014 by msn

We were in Melbourne this last week for four days attending our first full Downies Coin Auction. We’ve visited Downies on many occasions before, attended auction viewings and other Australian public auctions but this was our first full auction attendance…

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Australian 2 Dollar Errors

Posted on July 3, 2014 by msn

One of the great features of our new blogging engine is the ability to have slideshows like the one above. This one shows four great errors of what is the “ugly duckling” of decimal coins, the $2 coin. The humble…

Posted in Error Coins

2014 Mob of Roos Dollar Rolls

Posted on July 3, 2014 by msn

Well it looks like the latest HOT product that is stirring up a feeding frenzy on eBay are the 2014 Mob of Roos Dollar rolls that we mentioned in this entry. Dealers could buy the rolls at face value at…

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Australian 200 Dollar Coins

Posted on June 28, 2014 by msn

In 1980 the Royal Australian Mint (RAM) released what was to be the first Australian 200 dollar coin. Minted from 22 carat (91.67%) gold and weighing 10 grams each coin contained 0.2947 of an ounce of pure gold. In 1980…

Blog Archives

PCGS Registry Sets Containing Highest Graded Coins

2015 Gold Plated 50 Cent Open Day Release

Adelaide Assay Office Ingot from the Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia

Counterfeit Australian 1928 Silver Shillings

Australian 1983 50 Cent Sets Price Record

Numismatic Items in the South Australian Maritime Museum

Downies Australian Coin Auction #317

Australian 2 Dollar Errors

2014 Mob of Roos Dollar Rolls

Australian 200 Dollar Coins

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