Series 01 Part 06: Sir William Dixson coin collection : Australian holey dollar currency

series

1812-1829

950594

Partly Digitised : DN/C 465 ; DN/C 468

60 coins

The Holey dollar and dump were introduced in New South Wales in 1812 to relieve the shortage of coins in the colony. They remained legal tender until approximately 1829. The coins were cut and restruck from coins originally issued by mints in Spain and South America. 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. They bore the date 1813.

60 Holey dollars originally from mints in Mexico City, Lima, Madrid, Seville and Potosi (Bolivia)

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Copyright status:Public domain:
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South

The Dixson collection of original Holey dollars is itemised and described in the appendix of The world of the Holey Dollar / Philip Spalding Santa Barbara, Ca[lif.] Priv. print. [by] Channel Lithograph Co., 1973]. Dixson Library shelf list cards are cross referenced to the numbers from this list: coins at SAFE/DN/C 455-503 and SAFE/DN/C 505-506 have Spalding numbers. Coinage and currency in New South Wales, 1788-1829 ; and, An index of currency references in the Sydney gazette 1803-1811 / W.J.D. Mira. [Sydney] : Metropolitan Coin Club of Sydney, c1981

See also:
Series 01 Part 07: Sir William Dixson coin collection : Australian currency, the Dump
Digital order no:Album ID : 1003640

Dates based on original coin. Overstamped date: 1813.

The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 - State Library of New South Wales (5 July - 10 October, 2010). Applies to: DN/C 480
The Governor : Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 (Travelling exhibition) - State Library of New South Wales (November 2010 - March 2012)
Currency Note Museum - Currency Note Museum (January 2003 - December 2012). Applies to: DN/C 456 and DN/C 457
Macquarie the Governor, 1810 to 1821 - Macquarie Bank (May 2012 - May 2013). Applies to: DN/C 465, 468