Australian $5 Coins

Hi everyone

I have just finished updating the Australian part of the catalogue in regards to $5 decimal coins. However I have only dealt with the Crown sized (38.74mm) $5 coins that are made from base metals. These $5 coins are all classed as NCLT and are usually produced in very low mintages. Although the first one produced in 1988 had a high mintage of 3,000,000.

There are currently 60 different coins in the above category and when I started the update I think that there were less than half of those listed on Numista. A lot were missing completely, some were missing images and some were very poorly described. Now Numista has them all, and all fully described. These are the 58 Aluminium-bronze versions....
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?mode=avance&p=1&r=&e=australie&d=&ca=3&no=&i=&v=5.00&m=Aluminium-bronze&a=&t=38.74&dg=&w=&g=&f=&c=&co=y&cno=y&cc=y&cn=y&cj=y&ce=y&cu=y&cat=y

There are 2 other base metal $5 coins but they are made from Copper-nickel, one of them was produced by the Perth Mint (The Eureka one)....
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?mode=avance&p=1&r=&e=australie&d=&ca=3&no=&i=&v=5.00&m=Copper-nickel&a=2004&t=38.74&dg=&w=&g=&f=&c=&co=y&cno=y&cc=y&cn=y&cj=y&ce=y&cu=y&cat=y

Strangely the Royal Australian Mint sometimes issued smaller (28.12mm)$5 bi-metallic coins, I don't have any of them in my collection, but Numista does have them all listed with fairly good images.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?mode=avance&p=1&r=&e=australie&d=&ca=3&no=&i=&v=5.00&m=Aluminium-bronze&a=&t=28.12&dg=&w=&g=&f=&c=&co=y&cno=y&cc=y&cn=y&cj=y&ce=y&cu=y&cat=y

There are other Australian $5 coins but they are made from Silver and Gold and are classed as Bullion coins. I don't collect those so have not even attempted to update those. They are all produced by the Perth Mint.

I would like to thank the Australian Referee for checking my work and making corrections where needed.

Enjoy - Mike

Thank you very much for the work you have put in in helping to develop the catalog. Are you planning on starting any other projects for the catalog?

Thank you so much! I have a large number of those coins, and I like being able to find them on the website.