Pre-Yugoslavia 1 and 2 Dinar Pair

Although for a long time most Australian coins were minted in London, Sydney or Melbourne, production during World War 1 was transferred to the Calcutta Mint in India to prevent currency shipments from Europe being intercepted by the German Navy. Unlike all other coins for use in Australia, these pennies did carry an “I” mint mark on the reverse just above the date. We have a small number of these coins struck between 1916 and 1918 in Very Fine condition.

This year marks 100 years since the death of Vladimir Illych Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, who overthrew the Czarist regime in 1917, led the Russian Revolution and later founded the Soviet Union in 1922. We are now offering this Soviet era 1 rouble coin issued in 1970 to commemorate the centenary of his birth in 1870. These coins are in circulated but Very Fine condition.

We were offered a group of ancient Indian copper coins recently; they were issued between 59- 131 AD. They have an elephant on one side and some circles on the other side. They were very crudely struck; after all, they were a very low denomination at the time. They are from Satavahanas, Pulomavi in India. We went through 2,000 coins in the hoard and picked out the best ones available. We went for the best elephants that we could find, in fact, we bought only 10% of the hoard, and these were the only ones that we thought were of sufficient quality for our customers. A very old coin but it won’t cost you the earth. As the elephant is now endangered, we think this ancient coin is very appropriate.