? This Olympic Baseball commemorative coin was part of a set released following the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. They depict 28 forms of Olympic sports. The obverse features an Ian Rank-Broadley portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II, right-facing with tiara. It also has the legend ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2000. The reverse shows an Olympic Baseball competitor preparing to throw the ball as well as the official Sydney 2000 Olympic logo and the five rings. This was designed by Philip ...
?Image from: PCGS . . 'ValueView'. Retrieved from https://www.pcgs.com/valueview/2-pounds-1980-date/1996-2-soccer-championship-au-dc/4043?sn=389206&h=pop
? The Royal Australian Mint has produced a silver kangaroo piece every year since 1993. This piece, issued in 1994, was designed by Horst Hahne and features a kangaroo in motion with the legend
? The Type III twenty cent piece was put into circulation in 1999 and continues to be regularly issued today. It features the new Ian Rank-Broadly portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse with the same Stuart Devlin platypus design on the reverse . Devlin's initials can be found within a wave to the left of the platypus' foot and Rank-Broadly's initials are located below the the obverse portrait. A number of additional striketypes were issued along ...
? The Melbourne mint opened its doors in 1872 but it wasn't until 1873 that the first half sovereigns were struck with an M mintmark underneath the shield. A total of 165,034 half sovereigns were struck in 1873 and unlike the early Sydney mint designs, the Melbourne mint had a standardised reverse design throughout the series though the obverse had three different variants. Reverse: Melbourne mint 'M' mintmark directly below the shield and between two rosettes ...