10 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Australia's First Mints - Gold Proof

Features

Issuer Australia
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type Non-circulating coin
Year 2016
Value 10 Dollars
10 AUD = USD 6.51
Currency Dollar (1966-date)
Composition Gold (.999)
Weight 3.135 g
Diameter 17.53 mm
Thickness 1.2 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
299050
References KM# 3287
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.

Commemorative issue

Australia's First Mints

Obverse

4th portrait of Queen Elizabeth II facing right wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2016
IRB

Designer: Ian Rank-Broadley

Reverse

Representation of a Sydney sovereign

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN MINT
C
AUSTRALIA
TEN DOLLARS

Designer: Royal Australian Mint

Edge

Reeded

Mint

C Royal Australian Mint, Canberra, Australia (1965-date)

Comments

In 2016 the RAM released this NCLT Gold Proof $10 Coin to Commemorate the First Mints of Australia with the design depicting the original Sydney Gold Sovereign. The coin’s reverse emulates a Sydney Mint sovereign, a design unique to Australia. Struck on exquisite 99.99% gold to the Royal Australian Mint’s proof standard. Packaged in an attractive presentation case with outer box.


Throughout the 19th century, Australian currency was an assortment of foreign coins, promissory notes and rum trades. The gold rush of this era became a pivotal period for Australian society, helping to develop both a form of currency and a unique identity.

The first factory to utilise this gold was the Adelaide Assay Office (established in 1852), which in its short life produced gold ingots and Australia’s first gold coin, the Adelaide Pound. As England did not authorise the use of the pound, it soon faded into obscurity and official branches of the Royal Mint opened in Sydney (1855), Melbourne (1872) and Perth (1899). These mints produced sovereigns and other pre-decimal coins until the Royal Australian Mint opened in 1965 and became the country’s sole producer of circulating coins.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
2016 C 1 000 Proof

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