What's up with the four different categories for pre decimal Australian coins?
New South Wales Pound, South Australian Pound, Australia Pound Sterling 1158 - 1971, Australia Pound 1910 - 1966.
These seem to be redundant as they all refer to the same currency. The 1158 Pound Sterling in particular as it is populated entirely by private token isues and gold coins. At the risk of sounding pedantic, in 1158 we just executed our criminals, we didn't start exporting them to the as yet undiscovered Antipodes for another 600 years.
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New South Wales was issuing it's own territorial coinage, such as the German notgelds are considered distinct. The South Australian pound was similar.
I agree about the "Pound Sterling" as the gold should either be incorporated to the other Pound (as they were worth the same) or added as mintmarks to British gold entries.
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I always assumed that Australia had it's own currency although I believe some UK coins have been struck with a Melbourne mint mark for use there. If the argument for including pound sterling issues is simply that they were once accepted as the equivalent of local currency then it's a slippery slope we are taking. I can think of a lot of countries where sterling coins circulated alongside local currencies. Taken to it's logical conclusion you would have to include the entire spectrum of UK coins for every country we traded with, invaded, annexed, colonised or even used as a trading post.
If there are territorial issues such as NSW then I'd suggest including them within the main currency as is done with UK "English" and "Scottish" Shillings.
If in doubt, follow K&M.
I see we now have a separate currency for "England" under the UK heading - >sigh<
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
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I have to agree with Phil, I have to ask which coins had Melbourne mint marks I need em !
I know that the 1827 penny was shipped to the prison camps but never arrived and also the 1797 1d was sent to one of the Australian settlements and was used up valued to stop merchants taking them away !
British homeland coinage circulated in Australia, even when they issued their first circulating coins. Australia only minted gold sovereigns, many of them for the homeland, similar to how Brazil only minted gold pesas during a certain time frame.
Kenny
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