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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Fifteen pence from New South Wales, 1813
1813
Silver coin. Obverse: crown, surrounded by country designation as a legend with the year below. Reverse: value designation in two lines. Cable edge. Coin is struck on the centre plug of a peso or 8 reales. On the obverse, part of the Spanish coat of arms is still faintly visible. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds th…
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Five shillings from New South Wales, Australia, 1813
1813
Silver coin with a large round hole in the centre. Obverse: laureate head of the Spanish King Charles IV. Below, date: 1806. Around the hole, value designation: five shillings. Reverse: between two pillars with a scroll bearing a motto, crowned composite coat of arms of Spain. In legend, mint mark: Mo [=Mexico City]…
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Colonial Government of New South Wales
modern coins
Holey dollar and dump
1813
The holey dollar and dump are paired coins created by punching out the centre of Spanish silver dollars (eight-real pieces) to provide a local circulating medium. In the British colony of New South Wales, they constituted the first official currency struck specifically for the territory. Governor Lachlan Macquarie i…
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Penny of the firm Metcalff & Lloyd in Sydney for New South Wales, 1863
1863
Copper private coin. Obverse: coat of arms supported by two native animals, surmounted by radiant sun with human face and below which banner with motto. Below that year. Reverse: in seven lines company name. Plain edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-5351; its record gives material recorde…
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