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Purpose

To advise our loyal customers, retailers and the general public of the attributes of authentic and official Royal Australian Mint products, so they can easily tell the difference between our official and custom minted products, re-packaged products in the secondary market and competitor products.

Holographic sticker

The Royal Australian Mint has introduced a holographic sticker on all 2011 products which are part of the Mint's official numismatic program (except the gallery press mintmark coin).

This holographic sticker is custom-made and tamper-evident which means it cannot be removed without damaging the sticker.

If your purchased product, believed to be in the official program, does not have a holographic sticker then it is not an authentic Mint official numismatic program product. If this is so, you should contact the place you purchased the product.

Corporate products made by the Mint will not have this holographic sticker.

General elements of products that form part of the Royal Australian Mint's official numismatic program may include:

• Signed Certificate of Authenticity from the CEO of the Royal Australian Mint, including nominal specifications (not all products have these)
• Black Case with certificate
• Round Taper Lock capsule
• Barcode
• Australian legal tender bearing the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II
• Royal Australian Mint logo with crest of Commonwealth of Australia or the text logo.

Crest Logo
Text Logo

General elements of the custom minted products made by the Royal Australian Mint may include:

• The coin is referred to as 'struck' by the Royal Australian Mint rather than minted.
• The certificate is white with a gold pinstripe and features the Mint text logo (only Royal Australian Mint products included in the official numismatic program feature the crest of Commonwealth of Australia logo).

• Occasionally coin supplied in capsule only.
• Privately commissioned coins packaged by a third party are not authorised to bear any Royal Australian Mint logos.

Custom Minted Product - no logo
Royal Australian Mint Product - crest logo

 

• Instances where the Royal Australian Mint provides the coin, case and outer packaging the outer packaging will only feature the text logo.