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During Floriade we are introducing a new way to experience our public galleries. In the place of public tours, from 16 September to 15 October 2017 between 10.00am and 4.00pm, our lovely guides will be stationed at key areas ready and waiting to tell you all the fantastic stories of coins in Australia and how we mint approximately 250 million coins each year.

You can also design and colour-in your own coin, create a possum mask, and check out our robots! If you’re lucky, one of them just might dance for you.

There’s so much to see and do at the Royal Melbourne show this year – including the chance the opportunity to strike your own coin! Visit the Mint’s stand to strike an ‘M’ for Melbourne counterstamp on the 2017 $1 Uncirculated Coin commemorating the centenary of the Trans-Australian Railway. Available for $5 and only as a Royal Melbourne Show special, this coin is the perfect keepsake to remember all of the fun had at the show!

The Royal Australian Mint will have a sales booth at the Melbourne Money Expo presented by the Australasian Numismatic Dealers Assoc. Inc. (ANDA) on Saturday 2 September 2017.

To celebrate Children's Book Council of Australia - Children’s Book Week 2017, Woolworths and the Royal Australian Mint have joined forces to create three Australian $2 coloured collector coins featuring designs from the children’s book Possum Magic, written by Mem Fox and illustrated by Julie Vivas. The coins will available from Woolworths supermarkets and metro stores nationwide from 15 August for a 3 week period or while stocks last.

The Mint is all aboard and heading south to Shepparton, Ballarat, Geelong, and Melbourne during late August and early September. The Mint’s Trans-Australian Tour celebrates one hundred years since the establishment of the Trans-Australian Railway.

The Royal Queensland Show (Ekka) is one of Queensland's largest annual events, held over ten full days at the Brisbane Showgrounds, and this will be its 140th show.

We are headed to the Ekka with the mobile coin press in tow. Visitors will be able to strike their own coin with a ‘B’ for Brisbane counterstamp on a 2017 $1 Uncirculated Coin commemorating the centenary of the Trans-Australian Railway.

Located at stand JRP 041 in the John Reid Pavilion, the Mint will also have a selection of its latest coin releases for purchase.

Please note the text corrections for the following pages of the printed June 2017 Mint Issue:

Page 27:

• The item with product code 210466 was incorrectly titled. The correct title is: $1 Fine Silver Proof Coin.
• The item with product code 310917 was incorrectly titled. The correct title is: 2017 $1 Fine Silver Frosted Uncirculated Coin.

Page 5:

• ‘two entertaining stories’ refers to the text featured on the inside of the coin folder and on the back of the outer sleeve, and does not infer the inclusion of two separate picture books.

The Mint is all aboard and making tracks along the NSW and SE QLD coast to Wollongong, Newcastle, Coffs Harbour, Brisbane, and the Gold Coast this month.

The Mint’s Trans-Australian Tour  celebrates one hundred years since the establishment of the Trans-Australian Railway.

Go full steam ahead to visit our pop-up shop for your ticket to trade.

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