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mvs7
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Here's a story that cracked me up earlier today. My, the state of education in this country 
This Student Failed Her Assignment Because Her Professor Said "Australia Isn't A Country". Please post a coin or note from Australia to help this professor out.
1943-D Six Pence PCGS MS65. Minted in Denver during WWII.
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Beautiful coin, very sad story...
Oi.
The professor should be transported!
I always thought that the nation of Australia was part of the Oceania continent. Anyway, I have a photo of only one Australian coin.
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There was the US presidential candidate who claimed that his opponent shouldn't be president because he was a foreigner born in Hawaii.
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Without getting into the politics of it, I went to high school in Hawaii, coincidentally the same one as Pres. Obama, albeit about a decade later, and I can tell you that Hawaiians are really annoyed when tourists say things like, "I'm going to miss this weather because I'm going back to the States tomorrow." (We're a state, too, sir...) This happens way more frequently than you'd think, even today.
How about a set?
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Close enough for government work...
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Just like the word "America", the word "Australia" can be applied to three different meanings:
These three things are not, in fact, identical; a distinction which the Australian tourist blurbs often neglect to mention. A distinction which can be illustrated by attempting to answer this deceptively simple question: "What is the tallest mountain in Australia?"
The tallest mountain on the island of Australia, and the answer usually given to the question in Australian school textbooks, is Mount Kosciusko (2228m), in the Snowy Mountains not far from Canberra.
The tallest mountain on the continent of Australia is Carstenz Pyramid (4884m), a mountain in the western half of the island of New Guinea (which, together with Tasmania and a few other offshore islands, forms the Australian continent) and is inside the Indonesian territory of West Papua.
The tallest mountain in the territory controlled by the country, the Commonwealth of Australia, is Mawson Peak (2745m), a stratovolcano on Heard Island, in the southern Indian Ocean about halfway between Perth and South Africa. The Heard and Macdonald Islands are uninhabited and have been part of Australia since Britain gave them to us in 1947. There are taller peaks in the Australian Antarctic Territory but these are discounted, due to the suspension of territorial claims below the 60 Degree South line, as per the Antarctic Treaty.
The OP asked for pictures, so here's some pictures. First, we have a "coin" from the island of Australia:
Next, some pics of a couple of coins from the continent of Australia:
Finally, a celluloid plastic coin from territory currently controlled by the Commonwealth of Australia, but was not at the time this coin was issued:
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Update: Professor fired. Link
did you post this with an iphone? Most likely its the spellcheck
I have a confession to make . Australian florins , shillings , and pences are my favorite kind of foreign junk silver . I buy it whenever I see it for my little stash.
When the day comes to liquidate it I'll probably get slaughtered unless I mail it back to a buyer in Australia but I just don't care
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OK, that's very very cool @Boosibri. Didn't even know those existed. And somehow everything is solved with a Pillar Dollar, too, so extra points.
@mvs7 That is the first Australian, or New South Wales, coin, called the Holey Dollar. Not cheap.
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Can't say I blame them for taking the action.
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This one sold for about $130,000 last summer in London.
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The New South Wales govenor had these dollars stuck to be the first circulating coinage in the penal colony of New South Wales. They turned the cut out hole into this "dump issues", valued at 15p with the Spanish dollar valued at 5 shillings.
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Very cool. I just looked these up in my 19th Cent. Krause. I see what you meant by rare... all the mintages say "(rare)" and all the prices say "---".
Yeah, that one isn't hard to figure out. I was amazed that after being called out by the student, she didn't just say "oh, of course, my bad," but instead arrogantly doubled-down on her "Australia isn't a country" nonsense. She should've at least Googled it to make sure before doubling down
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Brian, is that your Holey Dollar? If so - amazing! It's a very special coin.
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No way! If it was i'd sell it and buy a Porsche
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Would you say Tasmania is an island, not a colony?
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Wow. Just wow. The smugness of some people. You're never too old to learn something ... especially something you should have learned by age 13.
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