• Title
  Holey dollar and dump, first distinct coinage of New South Wales, 1813
• Call number
  SAFE/R 277a
  SAFE/R 277b
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 1, Shelf 14. Applies to all parts.
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1813 (created from a Spanish dollar minted in 1773)
• Type of material
  Coins
• Reference code
  431559
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 2 silver coins - 40.35 mm. - dollar diameter, 16.55 mm. - hole diameter; 18.8 mm. - dump diameter - very fine (dollar) and extremely fine (dump) condition; dollar and dump may not be from the same original
  
• Scope and Content
  277a. Holey dollar
  277b. Dump
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  In Nov. 1812, 40 000 Spanish dollars arrived in Sydney Cove on the Sloop of War "Samarang", from Madras, purchased by the English Government through the East India Company. Governor Macquarie had a circular disc punched from the centre of each dollar. The outer ring and dump were counterstamped with the name of the colony and the new value - five shillings for the holey dollar and 15 pence for the dump. In 1813 Macquarie issued a proclamation to establish the holey dollar and dump. These became the first distinct coins of the colony. Source: Coinage & currency in New South Wales 1788-1827 / WJD Mira. [Sydney]: Metropolitan Coin Club of Sydney, c.1981
  Digital order no:Album ID : 825709
  These items have been preserved and digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2003
• Topic
  coins
  silver
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Possessed : an exhibition of treasures - State Library of New South Wales (4 March - 29 June, 1997)
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales
  ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary - State Library of New South Wales (March, 2010 - June, 2010)
  Landmarks: People and Places across Australia - National Museum of Australia (May, 2011 - May, 2014)

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