On Saturday, October 5 Roxburys’ Auction House in sunny Queensland will feature an example of Australia’s rarest circulation coin: a 1916 mule halfpenny (KM-30). Importantly this is not one of the previously known examples. It is a discovery coin found recently in a tin in a shed on a deceased estate
One lot in Queensland’s Roxburys auction house’s May sale provided the latest chapter in Australia’s 1982 Great Plane Robbery gone wrong. It consisted of an exceedingly rare Australian specimen set.
On Sept
Historic Thai notes seldom cross the block in Brisbane, Australia. Bob and Jacquie Innes of Roxbury’s Auction House were a little perplexed when an extensive collection in three albums arrived on consignment for their May auction.
The notes had been assembled over many years
Rare gold Mezaros pattern Australian “Goose dollar” of 1967 that was sold recently for $22,188 by Roxbury’s Queensland auction house. (Images courtesy & © Roxburys)
Among Australia’s most sought-after decimal coins are the unofficial 1967 silver and gold dollar patterns of Andor Mezaros showing a Black Swan in flight. These coins have long been dubbed simply as Goose dollars by collectors