The Royal Australian Mint (RAM) launched a unique coin collection to commemorate the centenary of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

Speaking at the launch of the coins, the Mint’s new CEO Leigh Gordon, AO, CSM, said collaborations like this one with the Royal Australian Air Force continue to help the Mint showcase the important work of Australian organisations.

“Through our coin releases, the Mint aims to commemorate significant events, anniversaries and organisations that are meaningful to the Australian...

Named after the Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, the Teutonic Order is a catholic religious order headquartered in Vienna, which was founded as a military order in the city of Acre in 1190.

The Teutonic Order epitomised the knightly virtue of brotherhood, the inspiration for the fifth and last coin in the Knights’ Tales series, in which we travel back in time to a bygone age of knightly virtues.

Initially a hospital brotherhood, from...

Captain Francis Blake and Professor Philip Mortimer are characters created by Edgar P. Jacobs. They made their first appearance in the Belgian comics “Tintin magazine”   in 1946. The series relates the adventures of the two friends, Professor Philip Mortimer, a renowned scientist and Captain Francis Blake, an MI5 agent.

Although the comic strip bears the names of both protagonists, Professor Philip Mortimer is the more important of the two. He is the one who often finds himself in difficult situations that his...

The position of a deep-sea predator in the stars tells the inhabitants of the Torres Strait islands when to fish, plant crops and hunt turtles. The constellation of sharks consists of stars in the great bear (Ursa Major).

The artist Segar Passi, from DAUAR in Queensland, is featured in the design of this uncirculated sterling silver coin. The Australian aborigines were the first astronomers and have long used the stars as maps and calendars.

This coin is already sold out at the Royal...