The introduction of decimal currency came at a time when untold thousands of Australians were searching their change for rare pennies and when the subject of our national coinage had a much higher profile in daily conversation than it does today. The release of a silver proof five-coin set b...

While I was at the Sydney ANDA show recently, I was fortunate enough to be offered a few coins for sale. Among them was one of the more interesting coins I've ever come across. At first blush, it looks just like any other silver and round Australian 50¢ coin struck in 1966 - trouble is,...

The 1966 wavy baseline 20 cent coin is counted among Australia's rarest decimal coins issued for circulation. Although 58.2 million 20 cent coins were struck dated 1966; very, very few of these feature what collector's describe as a "wavy baseline". T...

Ian Rank-Broadley (IRB) is a renown British sculptor - perhaps his best-known work is the obverse coinage design that he designed of Queen Elizabeth II - it was used on Great Britain's coins between 1998 and 2014, and has been seen on Australia's coins since 1997....

In the middle of 2015, a 1966 silver Australian uniface obverse pattern dollar coin was offered for sale via public auction. This coin had not been seen on the open market since March 1988, s...

Across 2015, the Australian numismatic community saw a polymer $50 note that was truly unusual - it was violet and green in colour, and had designs vastly different to those we see in circulation. It turned out that the note was actually used by CSIRO across the 1970’s in their testing ...