Author: thedigitalphilatelist

Details Series: 2013 Holey Dollar and Dump 1813-2013 Subject: Holey Dollar & Dump Designer: Phil Ellett Product Design: Jo Muré, Australia Post Design Studio Printer: EGO Press: Process: Lithography Colours: Paper: Tullis Russell Watermark: None Perf: 14.6 x 14.86 (comb) Sheet: R10 x 5 (50 stamps) Quantity:

Details Series: 2013 Holey Dollar and Dump 1813-2013 Subject: Dump Designer: Phil Ellett Product Design: Jo Muré, Australia Post Design Studio Printer: EGO Press: Process: Lithography Colours: Paper: Tullis Russell Watermark: None Perf: 14.6 x 14.86 (comb) Sheet: R10 x 5 (50 stamps) Quantity: Sheet Value

In 1813 nearly 40,000 examples of the “holey dollar and dump” were minted in New South Wales to address a currency shortage in the new colony. The coins, derived from Spanish dollars, became the first to be circulated specifically in Australia. On 26 November 1812, a special shipment of Spanish…

This year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of German naturalist and explorer Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813–c. 1848) whose mysterious disappearance in the Australian outback has become part of the nation’s mythology. Ludwig Leichhardt was born in Prussia, the sixth of eight children. Initially educated at the universities…

Details Series: 2013 Holey Dollar and Dump 1813-2013 Subject: Holey Dollar Designer: Phil Ellett Product Design: Jo Muré, Australia Post Design Studio Printer: EGO Press: Process: Lithography Colours: Paper: Tullis Russell Watermark: None Perf: 14.6 x 14.86 (comb) Sheet: R10 x 5 (50 stamps) Quantity: Sheet Value