2013 - Australian Year Theme Set Holey Dollar CBMS

2013 - Australian Year Theme Set (Holey Dollar CBMS)

Features

Issuer	Australia
Mint	Royal Australian Mint
Year	2013
Issued quantity	12 175
Number	N# S857

Description

This 2013 Year Theme Four Coin NCLT Set commemorates 200 years of Australia’s first official currency in 2013 with a special Holey Dollar and Dump design on an NCLT Aluminium-bronze $1 coin. The coin depicts a Holey Dollar, with a Dump occupying the central space of the coin.

The original Holey Dollar and Dump became Australia’s first coins in an innovative effort to rectify a coin shortage and stabilise the economy of the fledging colony. The coins were created from 40,000 silver Spanish eight reale coins, which were imported by Governor Lachlan Macquarie and entered into circulation in 1814.

This Set comprises four $1 coins, one with a "C" Mintmark & three with [B ], [S], & [M] Privymarks.

The Set was issued in a blister pack cardboard card which was inserted in a cardboard outer sleeve.