media releases | 2008
19/11/2008
Design agency hits a six with Mint’s websites
Design agency CRE8IVE has come away with two wins for the Royal Australian Mint at this year’s Print and Graphic Excellence (PAGE) Awards.
11/11/2008
Mint signs international contract
Today the Royal Australian Mint signed a new two year contract worth an estimated US $130 million with coin blank supplier Poongsan Corporation.
07/11/2008
Mint shoots for the stars with 2009 coins
Alongside telescopes looking up into the night sky, the Royal Australian Mint launched its newest collectible coins at a unique event on Friday 7 November 2008.
13/09/2008
Mint gnomes at Floriade
The Royal Australian Mint will feature in the 2008 Floriade corporate gnome competition with an entry called 'Priscilla, Coin of the Desert'.
26/08/2008
Bradman signed my bat
On Tuesday 26 August at Manuka Oval, Canberra, the Royal Australian Mint will officially launch its latest collector coin which commemorates the 100th Anniversary of Sir Donald Bradman’s birth.
21/08/2008
Mint takes its next great step with Cincom
The Royal Australian Mint has commenced the next phase of its modernisation program with the signing of a $3.6 million contract for a new IT Business System.
08/07/2008
First Australian Saint commemorated on coin
Senator the Hon Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, today launched the first coin in the Inspirational Australians’ coin series which features the Australian people’s saint, Blessed Mary MacKillop.
01/07/2008
NT coin released on Territory Day
The Royal Australian Mint marks the 30th anniversary of self-government for the Northern Territory with the release of a commemorative five dollar coin.
24/06/2008
The Royal Australian Mint issues new worn and damaged coin policy
The Royal Australian Mint will activate a new 'Worn and Damaged Circulating Coin Policy' from 1 July 2008.
06/05/2008
Protected from Australia's most unwanted
The Royal Australian Mint has released a special one dollar coin featuring a detector dog on duty to mark the centenary of Australian Quarantine.
02/04/2008
Australian company to modernise Mint with robots
Australis Engineering P/L has won the tender to update the Royal Australian Mint’s materials handling and warehousing system.
07/03/2008
Coins released for Centenary of Rugby League
The 2008 NRL Telstra Premiership season kicked off last night in Sydney. The Royal Australian Mint has joined in the celebrations by releasing an exciting range of official licensed Rugby League centenary collector coins.
22/02/2008
New dollar coin to mark Scout Centenary
Senator the Hon Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, today joined with former Governor-General Sir William Deane AC KBE, National President of Scouts Australia and Mr John Ravenhall AM, Chief Commissioner of Scouts Australia to launch a new one dollar coin to mark the centenary of scouting in Australia.
01/02/2008
Minister unveils innovative Antarctic coin to mark 4th International Polar Year
The Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, Senator Nick Sherry unveiled a fine silver proof $5 2008 Polar Series coin at the head office of the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) in Hobart today.
01/01/2008
100 years of Australia's original Coat of Arms
Each year, coin collectors begin to line up from as early as 8.00am, for the rare opportunity to be amongst the first people in the world to mint their own coin, with a new design released each year.