AR / ITEM / 00100135
1813 New South Wales holey dollar, accession IR 5900.0001
Maker unknown
A 1796 Spanish eight-real coin converted in 1813 into a New South Wales holey dollar, part of Australia's first locally produced currency.
- Date
- 1813
- Collection
- National Museum of Australia
- Reference
- IR 5900.0001
- Catalogue
- New South Wales holey dollar (1813)
Plate not recorded
No photograph with documented reuse rights is held for this record.
Record
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- 41 mm diameter
- Origin
- Australia
Provenance and history
1813
CreatedA
Sources
- A
nma.gov.au
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