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Royal Australian Mint A tourist's eye's view 19 April 2005 |
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Horst Hahne's sketch for our current $2 coin. |
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The sketch above became the plaster at left. This was reproduced in silicone, then epoxy, then reduced
onto steel, hobbed, (etc etc) to finally make these:
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| Plasters for most of the original decimal set. |  |
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 Two Aussie Holy Grails. The Adelaide gold tokens, and the 1930 penny. sigghhh. |
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A conventional coining press, stripped of its outer case, safety guards, etc. etc. A shame the display is still "pending". |
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The same press, as viewed from the RH (LH?) side.
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Detail of the "business end". |
| The other side. Now that's what I call a "brake"!
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Small rolling mill - once used to reduce precious metal blanks to the correct thickness for punching out planchets. |
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