16/11/2018
2018 New Year’s Eve event – Last Coin of the Year
This will be your chance to secure the last coins produced by the Royal Australian Mint in 2018. On December 31 at 3:30 pm, a lucky door draw will be held at the Mint for the last coins of the year.We will draw the last ten customers to strike a coin and each lucky winner will receive a certificate authenticating their coin. Ticketing closes at 3.25 pm.
2019 New Year’s Day event – first 100 by 9.30 am!
15/11/2018
The Holiday season is just around the corner. Don't forget to visit our online store or phone our Contact Center to place your orders on time. You can pick up a range of beautiful coins, collections and stocking fillers.
To ensure delivery for domestic locations prior to Christmas, orders must be placed by Friday 07 December 2018. International orders must be placed by Friday 30 November 2018.
01/11/2018
This section lists the exciting new releases available the next month, giving all of our loyal customers an earlier opportunity to learn about upcoming releases of our unique and sought-after products.
December releases:
Possum Magic 2019 Six Coin Uncirculated Year Set - $45.00 RRP
Possum Magic 2019 Six Coin Proof Year Set - $125.00 RRP
1812 A New Map of the World 2019 $5 Fine Silver Proof Terrestrial Domed Coin - $125.00 RRP
2019 6 Coin Celebrations Proof Set - $130.00 RRP
24/10/2018
Due to a scheduled power outage, the Mint’s e-shop and Contact Centre will be offline from 1:30 pm on Friday 26 October.
We anticipate the e-shop will be back online on Saturday 27 October. The Contact Centre will re-open on Monday 29 October at 8.30 am.
The Mint’s Gallery and retail shop will not be affected by the power outage and will remain open to visitors until 5:00 pm.
We apologise for the inconvenience.
21/10/2018
News Corp Australia are honouring the enduring values of our ANZACs – values that have defined Australia – with the release a new 15 coin collection inspired by the stained glass windows in the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial.
The Official 2018 Anzac Coin Collection, ‘The Anzac Spirit: Values That Defined Our Nation’, reflects the legacy of war and highlights the values and qualities displayed by Australians who have served.
18/10/2018
Will you be attending the Invictus Games Sydney 2018?
Take some time to visit the Invictus Games Superstore or the Hyatt Regency Friends & Family Store to get a closer look at the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 Medals or pick up the perfect memento of the Games.
18/10/2018
To get your hands on some freshly minted 2018 $2 Invictus Games Circulating Coins head down to the Mint's pop-up in the Invictus Games Superstore at Olympic Park, Homebush Bay on October 24 and 25 from 8.00 am - 12.00 pm.
Simply bring $10 of your cash or coin to swap for five freshly minted Invictus Games $2 circulating coins in a Mint branded sachet.
A limit of 3 sachets per customer, per line-up applies.
16/10/2018
The Royal Australian Mint’s Rascals and Ratbags Roadshow is heading to Western Australia in November. The Roadshow marks 150 years since the convict era of Rascals and Ratbags and celebrates their special contribution to Australia’s history, heritage and folklore. You’re invited to get up to a bit of mischief and strike your very own commemorative Rascals & Ratbags $1 coin.
Be sure to meet some of the great characters of our past, when the Rascals and Ratbags Roadshow comes your way.
16/10/2018
Join the Royal Australian Mint in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra or Melbourne to get your hands on Australia’s newest circulating coins before they hit circulation.
Where & When
SYDNEY COIN SWAP
When: Thursday November 1
Time: 8.00 am – 2.00pm
Where: Centenary Square, Parramatta
Available at the coin swap:
03/10/2018
The Mint is pleased to bring you a new section that lists the exciting new releases available the following month, allowing our loyal customers advance notice of future releases and sought-after products. This information will also be published on the Mint's social media channels.
Releases for November 2018
2018 $2 C Mintmark Colour Uncirculated Coin –
Remembrance Day Armistice Centenary $15.00 RRP
2019 Six Coin Uncirculated Year Set –
Moon landing $25.00 RRP
2019 Six Coin Proof Year Set –
Moon landing $100.00 RRP
03/10/2018
We are experiencing a large influx of enquiries due to high interest in the recently released AC/DC products.
We will endeavour to respond to you within the next 48 hours.
We appreciate your patience during this time.
Royal Australian Mint
02/10/2018
The Royal Australian Mint (the Mint) is celebrating the 45th anniversary of Australian rock royalty, today releasing high voltage AC/DC coins.
In the spirit of AC/DC and their hit single ‘Thunderstruck’, the Mint partnered with Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre to strike AC/DC coins with a bolt of man-made lightning.
21/09/2018
Step into the magical world of May Gibbs’ Snugglepot and Cuddlepie with the Mint at Floriade.
From 1 to 5 October the Mint will be celebrating the 100th birthday of the much-loved and mischievous bush babies with free activities for the whole family.
Listen to May Gibbs’ classic Australian book ‘Meet Snugglepot and Cuddlepie’ during Story Time, create your own gumnut necklace or crown at daily craft sessions and get creative at the May Gibbs Colouring Corner.
Date: Monday 1 October to Friday 5 October 2018
06/09/2018
If you have placed an order with the Royal Australian Mint and are currently awaiting delivery, we apologise for the delay.
Due to the incredible popularity of our August and September releases, the Mint’s dispatch is experiencing much higher than anticipated order volumes. This has resulted in a delay to shipment of these products.
We anticipate that all current orders will be shipped and delivered by the end of September.
Thank you for your patience,
Kind Regards,
Customer Service Team
Royal Australian Mint
03/09/2018
Marking 150 years since the convict era of Rascals and Ratbags, the Royal Australian Mint is landing in a town near you. To celebrate their special contribution to Australia’s history, heritage and folklore, you’re invited to get up to a bit of mischief yourself, by counterstamping your very own commemorative Rascals & Ratbags $1 coin. Our mobile minting team will be touring around the country, stocked with a range of special products, coin swaps and just as many great stories to share.
03/09/2018
The Mint is pleased to announce, that as a result of customer feedback, a new section has been added the Mint’s publications each month. This new section lists the exciting new releases available the following month, allowing our loyal customers advance notice of future releases of our unique and sought-after products. This information will also be published on the Mint's social media channels.
Releases for October 2018
15/08/2018
The Royal Australian Mint in Canberra is holding a celebration of Australian motorsport and is inviting locals to join us on national breakfast TV on Tuesday 21 August. Kids, cars, supporter flags and clothing welcome!
The TV event will launch the Mint’s Motorsport Collection, featuring 12 new fifty cent coins showcasing iconic Ford or Holden vehicles.
A Ford or Holden Motorsport coin is also on offer for those that bring along a car matching one of the models below.
13/08/2018
The sun is setting for the final time on our Golden Kangaroo.
02/08/2018
Marking 150 years since the convict era of Rascals and Ratbags, the Royal Australian Mint is landing in a town near you. To celebrate their special contribution to Australia’s history, heritage and folklore, you’re invited to get up to a bit of mischief yourself, by counterstamping your very own commemorative Rascals & Ratbags $1 coin. Our mobile minting team will be touring around the country, stocked with a range of special products, coin swaps and just as many great stories to share.
13/07/2018
Australia’s newest circulating coin arrives on Monday 23 July.
Join the Royal Australian Mint in Sydney or Brisbane to get your hands on the coins before they hit circulation.
Sydney Coin Swap
When: Monday 23 July
Time: 7.30 am to 3.00 pm
Where: Martin Place - between Pitt and Castlereagh Streets
09/07/2018
Join Dr Rick Williams for a free public talk about the impressions stamped on coins from Southern Italy in the 6th and 5th centuries BC and how their minting relates to Australia’s first coins - the holey dollar and dumps made in New South Wales in 1813. How do they compare? Can we draw links between the methods used to make them?
When: Wednesday 8 August 2018 at 10.30am-11.15am
Where: Education Room at the Royal Australian Mint, Denison Street, Deakin, ACT
Price: Free of charge but bookings recommended
05/07/2018
Marking 150 years since the convict era of Rascals and Ratbags, the Royal Australian Mint is landing in a town near you. To celebrate their special contribution to Australia’s history, heritage and folklore, you’re invited to get up to a bit of mischief yourself, by counterstamping your very own commemorative Rascals & Ratbags $1 coin. Our mobile minting team will be touring around the country, stocked with a range of special products, coin swaps and just as many great stories to share.
01/06/2018
Marking 150 years since the convict era of Rascals and Ratbags, the Royal Australian Mint is landing in a town near you. To celebrate their special contribution to Australia’s history, heritage and folklore, you’re invited to get up to a bit of mischief yourself, by counterstamping your very own commemorative Rascals & Ratbags $1 coin. Our mobile minting team will be touring around the country, stocked with a range of special products, coin swaps and just as many great stories to share.
17/05/2018
The Mint will be travelling to Dubbo, Wagga Wagga, Sydney, Parramatta and Wollongong during the second leg of the 2018 Road show. This year’s Roadshow showcases the 2018 Ratbags and Rascals: Australia’s Convict Era Collection.
Our team are excited to bring you the opportunity to trade for the latest products, get fresh change and stamp a special coin.
Dates and times to be advised.
17/05/2018
Due to a change in policy, the Royal Australian Mint can no longer offer Circulating Coin Sachets for purchase through our online store or contact centre, effective from July 1, 2018. This change of policy has been made to ensure the Mint’s continued compliance with Australia’s Taxation regulations.
From July 1, sachets of circulating coins will only be available as a Coin Swap (cash only) at our Roadshow, Pop-Up and Coin Swap Events. We apologise for any inconvenience and encourage our collectors to take advantage of this limited window of availability.
07/05/2018
Come and celebrate with the Mint this Saturday as we kick off our national tour with the Rascals and Ratbags Roadshow Reveal.
Stamp your own coin with a special ‘Australia’ counterstamp, swap existing coins or cash for freshly minted 2018 standard and commemorative circulating coins and shop for the latest products.
Everyone is welcome to join in the fun, stamp their own coin and explore the Mint.
Date: Saturday 12 May
Time: 10.00am to 4.00pm
18/04/2018
The Royal Australian Mint honours and pays tribute to Stuart Devlin AO, who passed away peacefully on 12 April 2018 at the age of 86. Devlin is the designer of Australia’s circulating coins and regarded as one of the most creative and influential goldsmith and silversmiths of his time.
As the supplier of Australia’s circulating coinage, the Royal Australian Mint has a longstanding connection to Devlin, who designed Australia’s decimal currency released in 1966.
17/04/2018
The Royal Australian Mint is hitting the road and bringing the minting experience to towns and cities around Australia on the 2018 Rascals & Ratbags Roadshow.
The first stage of the tour will visit Melbourne, Port Arthur, Hobart, Launceston and Devonport throughout May.
The Mobile Mint Team will be setting up pop-up shops where you can strike an ‘Australia’ counterstamp onto a Rascals & Ratbags $1 coin, swap coins or cash for freshly minted and special circulating coins, plus browse new products from the Mint.
23/03/2018
The Contact Centre will be closed from 4.00pm on Friday 23 March 2018.
If your enquiry is urgent please call the Contact Centre before 4.00pm or email salesinfo@ramint.gov.au.
Enquiries after 4.00pm will be followed up on Monday 26 March 2018, when we reopen at 8.30am.
08/03/2018
To celebrate the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games the Royal Australian Mint through Woolworths has released three themed coloured $2 coins featuring designs inspired by the Games and the dynamic Gold Coast Landscape. The coins will available from Woolworths supermarkets and metro stores nationwide from 14 March for a 4 week period or while stocks last.
01/03/2018
Join the National Gallery of Australia’s Beatrice Thompson as she shares specialist insights about the rare 19th and 20th century silver and gold objects currently on display at the Royal Australian Mint. Grand and elegant, the objects celebrate excellence in design and silver smithing in colonial Australia. Ticket cost includes curator talk, exhibition viewing and light refreshments.
Date: 6.00pm Wednesday, March 28
Venue: Royal Australian Mint, main gallery
01/03/2018
With the Sydney Royal Easter Show offering a great range of activities for the family, the Royal Australian Mint will be joining in the fun from 23 March to 3 April 2018. Our popular mobile press will be ready to stamp with the Mint offering show-goers the opportunity to strike an ‘S’ for Sydney on the 2018 Ratbags and Rascals: Australia’s Convict Era uncirculated coin.
22/02/2018
The Royal Australian Mint is celebrating its 53rd Birthday. To mark this milestone, our retail shop will be holding a 4-day sale from 9.00 am Thursday 22 February until 4.00 pm Sunday 25 February. Visit the Mint Shop at Denison Street in Deakin, Canberra to receive 10% OFF selected watches, jewellery, collectable coins and coin sets*. Shop trading hours: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm Monday to Friday & 10am to 4pm Saturday & Sunday.
The Mint Shop has a variety of discounted products available including:
12/02/2018
The Mint will be on the Gold Coast with our mobile coin press from 5 - 15 April. Visit the GC2018 Superstore in Broadbeach to pick up the exclusive ‘GC’ counterstamp 2018 $1 Coloured Frosted Uncirculated Borobi coin.
23/01/2018
Participate in a remarkable experience this Enlighten - an exclusive Mint Masterclass at the Royal Australian Mint.
As a special treat you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in an authentic coin modelling and sculpting experience hosted by Mint coin designers.
Spaces are limited for those who would like to learn the arts of traditional plaster and modern 3D coin modelling techniques, as practised by masters in Mint’s around the world.
23/01/2018
The Royal Australian Mint is popping-up on the gold coast in the countdown to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
The Mint pop-up shop and mobile coin press will be at the GC2018 Superstore in Broadbeach, Queensland from 24 to 26 January 2018.
The pop-up shop will have on display the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games gold, silver and bronze medals, along with official commemorative coins collection.
This will be a rare opportunity for the public to pick up a special keepsake of the Games and see the Games medals up-close and personal.
01/11/2018
The nation’s first ever coin hunt, Australia’s Dollar Discovery, launches today as a fun way to encourage the public, and families in particular, to engage with coin collecting.
30/10/2018
A coloured depiction of a poppy and a graphic representation of 11.11.11 adorn Australia’s newest circulating coin, unveiled today by Senator the Hon. Zed Seselja, the Assistant Minister for Treasury and Finance.
02/10/2018
The Royal Australian Mint (the Mint) is celebrating the 45th anniversary of Australian rock royalty, today releasing high voltage AC/DC coins.
In the spirit of AC/DC and their hit single ‘Thunderstruck’, the Mint partnered with Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre to strike its AC/DC coins with a bolt of man-made lightning.
02/10/2018
The Kangaroo at Sunset Silver Proof Coin was first launched by the Royal Australian Mint (the Mint) in 2010. This year, the Mint concludes this popular series with the sophisticated Kangaroo at Sunset 2019 $1 Fine Silver Proof Coin.
The breathtaking coin is one of the Mint’s most iconic and features a world renowned design by celebrated sculptor Wojciech Pietranik.
25/09/2018
With less than one month to go until the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 presented by Jaguar Land Rover, Australia’s first coin featuring braille text has been released by the Royal Australian Mint (the Mint), an Official Supporter of the 2018 Games.
11/09/2018
After collecting over 6,000 fingerprints from athletes and dignitaries during the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, a young Aboriginal artist’s painting has gone on display for the first time at the Royal Australian Mint (the Mint) in Canberra.
03/09/2018
His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, today revealed the first Australian coins to feature the new portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, signalling the impending transition to a new effigy on all Australian coinage.
03/09/2018
The Royal Australian Mint has issued the second release in its three-coin The Earth and Beyond series, which showcases our extraordinary planet and beyond.
Following on from the first domed coin in the series, which depicted the Earth as seen from space, this new release celebrates the Moon, our closest celestial companion.
22/08/2018
The Royal Australian Mint (the Mint) has today released 12 new uncirculated fifty cent coins each showcasing a different Ford or Holden motorsport vehicle. To coincide with the coin’s release, the Mint has launched Australia’s first Reverendum which will decide the country’s favourite Holden and Ford motorsport cars.
07/08/2018
For the past 11 years, the Royal Australian Mint has held an annual ballot for the iconic Kangaroo at Sunset $25 Gold Proof Coin, with this year marking the coin’s final release.
Available exclusively by ballot, the Kangaroo at Sunset $25 Gold Proof Coin release has been a yearly tradition for the Mint, says Chief Executive Officer Ross MacDiarmid.
06/08/2018
Artistry, craftsmanship and history combine in a new gold domed coin released today by the Royal Australian Mint (the Mint).
The 2018 $100 Gold Proof Domed Coin captures the Western Hemisphere as depicted on a richly-decorated 1626 map by English cartographer John Speed titled A New and Accurate Map of the World.
20/07/2018
An image of a wheelchair competitor adorns Australia’s newest circulating coin, unveiled today by the Royal Australian Mint (the Mint) ahead of Invictus Games Sydney 2018 presented by Jaguar Land Rover.
09/07/2018
The Royal Australian Mint (the Mint) continues to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its Kangaroo Series, today unveiling two new coins in the popular series.
09/07/2018
To mark the 100th anniversary of two key victories during the First World War, the Royal Australian Mint has released commemorative coins recognising the battles of Villers-Bretonneux and Amiens on the Western Front.
20/06/2018
Exactly thirty years ago, Australia’s two dollar note was retired and the two dollar coin was born. Today (20 June 2018) the Royal Australian Mint (the Mint) celebrates the two dollar coin’s thirtieth birthday, looking back at designs and themes the coin has marked over three decades.
07/05/2018
One of the most enduring series in Australian numismatic history is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2018. The popular Kangaroo Series, produced by the Royal Australian Mint, has featured artistic depictions of Australia’s iconic kangaroo since 1993.
22/04/2018
The Government today announced that Australia will adopt a new effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on all circulating and collector coins.
The new effigy of The Queen will be only the sixth to feature on Australia’s coins since Her Majesty’s accession to the throne in 1952.
20/04/2018
The iconic eternal flame at the Australian War Memorial will now circulate in currency with coloured $2 coins released by the Royal Australian Mint ahead of Anzac Day.
04/04/2018
General Sir John Monash’s legacy as a scholar, engineer, solider and nation builder was today recognised by Hon. Michael Sukkar MP with the release of two unique commemorative coins produced by the Royal Australian Mint (the Mint).