Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Bicentenary of the Holey Dollar and Dump - Silver Proof
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
|---|---|
| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Fourth crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, as designed by Ian Rank-Broadley. The legend ELIZABETH II encircles the upper field, with AUSTRALIA 2013 and the denomination 1 DOLLAR positioned below, along with the designer's initials IRB truncated at the portrait's base. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
In 1813, Governor Lachlan Macquarie solved the chronic coin shortage plaguing New South Wales by purchasing 40,000 Spanish colonial eight-reales and having a central disc punched from each — creating two coins from one. The outer ring became the Holey Dollar, valued at five shillings; the centre plug, the Dump, at fifteen pence. It was a blunt, practical solution, and it gave the colony its first locally distinctive currency.
The convict assigned to punch and counterstamp the originals was William Henshall, a silversmith transported for forgery — a detail the historical record seems almost too neat to have invented.