The Royal Australian Mint
Coins, look in your pockets, in your wallet. Do you know where they came from how they were made. Well the answer to that lies at the mint within the walls under the roof.
There are many assets of the mint but first the history of the mint and Australian coins.
1800 First came the proclamation coins caused by Governor King fixing the price of all foreign coins brought into Australia. 1813 40,000 round holes where punched out of Spanish dollars order by Governor Macquarie. These coins become known as the holey dollar, both the inside and out were used as a currency. 1825 the ‘Sterling Silver Money Act’ as passed by The English Parliament made British coins the only recognised currency in Australia. 1849 …show more content…
2013 Two breakthrough $5 coins are produced as a collective item a round one featuring the Australian night sky and a triangular one to commemorate 25 years of the new Parliament House.
From 1800 to 2013 the history of Australian coins has evolved and changed to what we have now.
Production is the key of every day coins and it starts off with blanks. Lots of them too truckloads in fact, then they go to his massive robot called Titan. There is another robot and its name is Penny and she is a forklift. This robot has to upload the trucks an deliver the blanks to Titan. He can lift up to 1000kgs or one tonne lucky for him the drums of blanks are only 750kgs then they are tipped into a hopper. Once Titan has tipped the blanks in he does a little bow. Once the blanks have filtered through the hopper they are taken along a conveyor belt to a counting machine it takes photos like a panorama to count how many counts need to be made. Then they are sent to one of the 13 stamping machines to get imprinted. Each machine can make 750 per minute and they stamp down with a force of 30,000 tonnes to make one coin. Once they are transformed into coins they then can be shipped off to the
Coins, look in your pockets, in your wallet. Do you know where they came from how they were made. Well the answer to that lies at the mint within the walls under the roof.
There are many assets of the mint but first the history of the mint and Australian coins.
1800 First came the proclamation coins caused by Governor King fixing the price of all foreign coins brought into Australia. 1813 40,000 round holes where punched out of Spanish dollars order by Governor Macquarie. These coins become known as the holey dollar, both the inside and out were used as a currency. 1825 the ‘Sterling Silver Money Act’ as passed by The English Parliament made British coins the only recognised currency in Australia. 1849 …show more content…
2013 Two breakthrough $5 coins are produced as a collective item a round one featuring the Australian night sky and a triangular one to commemorate 25 years of the new Parliament House.
From 1800 to 2013 the history of Australian coins has evolved and changed to what we have now.
Production is the key of every day coins and it starts off with blanks. Lots of them too truckloads in fact, then they go to his massive robot called Titan. There is another robot and its name is Penny and she is a forklift. This robot has to upload the trucks an deliver the blanks to Titan. He can lift up to 1000kgs or one tonne lucky for him the drums of blanks are only 750kgs then they are tipped into a hopper. Once Titan has tipped the blanks in he does a little bow. Once the blanks have filtered through the hopper they are taken along a conveyor belt to a counting machine it takes photos like a panorama to count how many counts need to be made. Then they are sent to one of the 13 stamping machines to get imprinted. Each machine can make 750 per minute and they stamp down with a force of 30,000 tonnes to make one coin. Once they are transformed into coins they then can be shipped off to the