Page 3 of Decimal Coins & Banknotes
2019-11-23 00:00:00
A Proposed Table Listing the Different Types of Polymer Test Notes Used by CSIRO ca 1972 ~ 1979
November 25, 2020 | Andrew Crellin
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 ...
2019-11-23 00:00:00
Ian Rank-Broadley - Sculptor of the Third (and Perhaps Final) Portrait of the Queen on Australia's
November 20, 2020 | Andrew Crellin
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....
2019-11-23 00:00:00
Australia's Rarest Twenty Cent Coin Issued Into Circulation - the 1966 Twenty Cent Wavy Baseline
October 15, 2021 | Andrew Crellin
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".
How to Identify the 1966 Wav...
2019-06-01 00:00:00
A Non-Binary 1966 VIP Uncirculated Coin Set - Specimen Strikes Included
October 12, 2021 | Andrew Crellin
While attending a local coin, stamp and note show in Perth, I spotted a 1966 VIP Uncirculated decimal coin set on the table of another dealer. I’ve handled several of these sets, and regard them as a truly scarce memento of a major event in Australia’s economic history - one that often has a uniq...
2018-10-30 00:00:00
Australia’s Next Generation Banknote $50 Is Now In Circulation - A True Black Swan Event
July 15, 2021 | Andrew Crellin
One of the biggest business books of the past decade was surely "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”, written by Nassim Taleb and published in 2007.
Taleb's book focuses on the impact that rare and unpredictable events have, as well as the human tendency to retrospectiv...
2018-03-31 00:00:00
Australia's Paper Decimal Banknotes - from Commonwealth to Polymer in 30 Years
November 20, 2020 | Andrew Crellin
To the uninitiated, Australia’s paper decimal banknotes remained largely the same between 1966 and 1996. Sure, the serial numbers may have changed over time, but the designs remained the same for pretty much 30 years.
The collectors that have studied this series know that a number of im...
2017-12-15 00:00:00
Australia’s Next Generation Banknote $10 - the Bramble is Paler Than the Prickly Moses
November 20, 2020 | Andrew Crellin
Australia's NGB $10 banknote was released into general circulation on 20 September 2017, with nowhere near the same vacuous fury that we saw on social media 12 months earlier when the NGB $5 note was released....
2017-10-28 00:00:00
Governor’s Charity Sheet Notes - A New Type of Specimen?
November 20, 2020 | Andrew Crellin
To the uninitiated, polymer “Charity Sheet"" notes appear to be a new type of specimen note - as with the polymer specimen notes issued between 1988 and 1996, each charity sheet note features “000000” after the serial prefix, so the initial confusion is understandable.
Charity Sheet not...