Australian Commonwealth Coinage

From 1911 to 1964 Australia had its own coinage based on the British system of pounds, shillings and pence. The pound was divided into 20 shillings and the shilling was divided into 12 pence. The penny was also divided into two halfpence (and in Great Britain and a handful of other Commonwealth nations, it could also be divided into four farthings).

Catalogue

Australia used seven of the multitude of predecimal denominations that Great Britain did - namely the halfpenny, penny, threepence, sixpence, shilling, florin and crown. Half sovereigns and sovereigns were also struck at the Sydney, Melbourne and Perth Mints but strictly speaking they were British coins struck in Australia. They did circulate in Australia along with other sovereigns struck throughout the empire though.

Bronze
1/2d (halfpenny) 1911 to 1964
1d (penny) 1911 to 1964

Silver
3d (threepence) 1910 to 1964
6d (sixpence) 1910 to 1963
1/- (shilling) 1910 to 1963
2/- (florin) 1910 to 1963
5/- (crown) 1937 to 1938

Gold
10/- (half sovereign) to 1918
£1 (sovereign) to 1931