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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.

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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.

You can:

This year’s National Reconciliation Week commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum and the 25th anniversary of the Mabo decision. To celebrate, the Royal Australian Mint has released a new special 50 cent circulating coin, to recognise these important dates in Australia’s history.

The Royal Australian Mint is celebrating 25 years of Bananas in Pyjamas and will be hosting the iconic ABC Kids duo on Sunday 4 June 2017.

Come and join the fun from 10 am – 1 pm.

The public are invited to meet the Bananas, grab a photo opportunity and enjoy the various children’s activities for a ‘bananarific’ day out for the whole family!