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keldaw2222 Valued Member Australia 428 Posts	Posted 05/27/2012 03:45 am i wonder how they cut it out of the big coin ? must have been a big job with the 1813 ones ,, kel ,, Report this Post to the Staff
enworb Pillar of the Community Australia 4411 Posts	Posted 05/27/2012 04:08 am A complete guess but a very quick and strong blow with a sharp ring? Report this Post to the Staff
trout1105 Pillar of the Community Australia 7096 Posts	Posted 05/27/2012 04:40 am I'm sure the original dollar and dumps were a lot thinner. The new ones are real chunky Report this Post to the Staff
Peter THOMAS Pillar of the Community Australia 2830 Posts	Posted 05/27/2012 07:31 am re-reading this thread, a few thoughts occur to me: the original Holey Dollar of 1813 was struck from a Spanish Dollar (a.k.a. Piece of Eight; or Eight Reales). The "Dump" struck out of the dollar was valued at a quarter of a dollar, and the remaining annulus was given a value, by law, in NSW, of one dollar, even although a big chunk of it was separated. Back then, a dollar was equivalent to five shillings, so the dump was 15 pence. When the NCLT "tributes" appeared, they had to be denominated. The annulus was given a value of one modern Australian (post-1966) dollar. And the Dump, being one-quarter, was 25 cents. Which is all very neat, but as I'm not a fan of NCLT, I won't go on about it. The sixty-cent coin mentioned above: I expect that that will be NCLT only; and I assumed that it was denominated as sixty, because this is the 60th Anniversary of the accession of H.M. Queen Elizabeth. In 1935, the Bank of Canada issued a commemorative $25-note, to mark the Silver Jubilee of King George V. The Canadian system has $20 and $50, but not usually a $25. Report this Post to the Staff
FNQ Pillar of the Community Australia 507 Posts	Posted 05/27/2012 07:43 am Quote: The sixty-cent coin mentioned above: I expect that that will be NCLT only; and I assumed that it was denominated as sixty, because this is the 60th Anniversary of the accession of H.M. Queen Elizabeth. The 60 cents comes from the fact that it's a "stamp" issue in coin form - similar to one they did a few years back where they got caught out by the change in postage rates, where they had received approval to issue a 55c coin (which remained at that legal tender amount) even though the final product was displayed a 60c value to match the stamp. Report this Post to the Staff
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