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Gold ingot from the Perth Mint. The Perth Mint is Australia's official bullion mint and wholly owned by the Government of Western Australia. [3] Established on 20 June 1899, [4] two years before Australia's Federation in 1901, the Perth Mint was the last of three Australian colonial branches of the United Kingdom's Royal Mint (after the now-defunct Sydney Mint and Melbourne Mint) intended to ...
Perth Mint, Australia. Today the United States Mint is largest mint manufacturer in the world, operating across six sites and producing as many as 28 billion coins in a single year. [2] Its largest site is the Philadelphia Mint which covers 650,000 square feet [3] (6 hectares) and can produce 32 million coins per day. [4]
Perth Mint originally intended to expand the 2013 mintage to one million coins, however, they later reduced this number to 500,000 and declared that future years would continue to be limited to this amount. [3] In addition to the annual design change, there is also a design change between the bullion and proof versions of the coin each year.
Gold Corporation is an Australian company owned by the Government of Western Australia, established by the Gold Corporation Act 1987, [1] with a mandate to operate the Perth Mint, market Australian gold, and other related activities. [2]
The Australian Gold Nugget, also sometimes known as the Australian Gold Kangaroo, [1] is a gold bullion coin minted by the Perth Mint.The coins have been minted in denominations of 1 ⁄ 20 oz, 1 ⁄ 10 oz, 1 ⁄ 4 oz, 1 ⁄ 2 oz, 1 oz, 2 oz, 10 oz, and 1 kg of 24 carat gold.
The Silver Koala Bear is a silver coin originating from Australia and produced at the Perth Mint. While the obverse of the coin always depicts Queen Elizabeth II of Australia, the reverse side changes every year, always featuring a koala, a marsupial native to Australia. The mint updates the monarch's portrait on obverse of the coin periodically.
The Dragon Rectangular Coin is a bullion coin produced by the Perth Mint since 2018. [1] [2] Resembling a cross between conventional gold and silver coins and gold and silver bars, the silver coin has a face value of one Australian dollar, while the gold version has a face value of one hundred Australian dollars. [3]
The Perth Mint Swindle is the popular name for the robbery of 49 gold bars weighing 69 kilograms (152 pounds; 2,200 troy ounces) from the Perth Mint in Western Australia on 22 June 1982. The bullion was valued at A$653,000 at that time (equivalent to $2,587,607 in 2022).