PERTH MINT ISSUES

The Perth Mint is Australia's specialist precious metals Mint, and is recognised as one of the world's most innovative producers of coins in all four precious metals - gold, silver, platinum and palladium. It is one of the oldest Mints in the world still operating from its original premises, right in the heart of a modern capital city.

Originally established as a branch of Britain's Royal Mint in the last years of Queen Victoria's reign, the Mint celebrated a century of coin and precious metals minting in 1999. It opened in 1899, to turn the gold from Western Australia's goldfields into Sovereigns and Half-Sovereigns.

The mint continued as a British institution until 1970 when formal control was passed to the Western Australian Government. Eventually it returned to the specialist field of precious metal coin production, in 1986, with the establishment of The Australian Precious Metals Coin Program, which initiated the most productive and successful period in the Mint's 100-year history.

The Australian Precious Metals Coin Program was launched in late 1986 with the First Proof Issue of the Australian Nugget gold coins. They were followed by Australian Koala platinum coins in 1988, Australian Kookaburra silver coins in 1990, Australian Emu palladium coins in 1995, and Australian Lunar gold and silver coins in 1995 and 1999 respectively.

Today the Mint's coins are distributed around the world and are keenly sought after for their excellence and outstanding quality. Since beginning its Precious Metals Coin program in 1986, The Perth Mint has been one of Australia's top export earners.

They Sydney 2000 Olympic Coin Program has added another dimension to the Mint's credentials. In partnership with the Royal Australian Mint, it is producing and marketing the commemorative coins and medallions for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. The Perth Mint manufactures precious metal coins for several other nations and base metal medallions for a wide variety of clients.

KJC Coins (Australia) are official distributors of both The Perth Mints Bullion as well as collector Precious Metal Coins. We offer all collector products at official issue prices or better unless they are sold-out. Likewise we sell The Perth Mints Precious Metal Bullion coins in gold, silver, platinum and palladium at the "world's" best price every day and will not be beaten.

KJC Coins (Australia) as one of the only private firms in the world to work in collaboration with the Perth Mint having been the exclusive - official supplier of all the original Perth Mint Gold Sovereigns to the Mint for the Centenary Celebrations including the stunning 80 complete 33 coin sets valued at $15,000 each. In Year 2000 we have also supplied the Perth Mint with all the Authentic original coins marketed together with their matching Privy Kookaburras for the important series issued at the official ANDA coin shows throughout Australia.

KJC Coins (Australia) also stock and readily buy and sell all the back issues of the Perth Mint Collection issues starting right back to 1986 when the program started. If there is anything you actually need for your collection that is not currently not listed on our site please ask and we will endeavour to find it for you.