✨ Royal Mint Proclamation
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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
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All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official
Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made
to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.
VOL. III.] AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1855. [No. 13.
At the Court at Windsor, the 18th day of
October, 1854.
PRESENT:
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT.
LORD PRESIDENT.
DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.
DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.
EARL OF ABERDEEN.
EARL GRANVILLE.
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
SIR JAMES GRAHAM, Bart.
MR. CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.
SIR CHARLES WOOD, Bart.
SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, Bart.
WHEREAS by an Order in Council,
bearing date the 19th day of August,
1853, Her Majesty thought fit to order that a
Branch of the Royal Mint should be esta-
blished at or near Sydney in New South
Wales.
And whereas, there was this day read, at the
Board, a representation from Sir John
Frederick William Herschel, Baronet, Master
of Her Majesty's Mint, dated the 25th day of
August last, in the words following, viz.-
"In pursuance of your Majesty's gracious
commands, that Dies for an Australian Sove-
reign and Half Sovereign (intended to be
struck in the Branch of your Majesty's
Mint at Sydney, in New South Wales,)
should be prepared according to a Pattern
which the Master of Your Majesty's
Mint had the honour to submit for your Ma-
jesty's approbation, I humbly beg to lay
before your Majesty a description of the
impression intended to be struck on the said
Australian Sovereign and Half Sovereign,
viz. :-
"For the obverse of the Sovereign the
effigy of Your Majesty with the inscription
"VICTORIA D. G. BRITANNIAR: REGINA E.D."
and the date of the year. For the reverse the
word AUSTRALIA, placed in the centre of
the Piece, encircled by a laurel wreath and sur-
mounted by the Royal Crown with the inscrip-
tion 'SYDNEY MINT, ONE SOVEREIGN' and with
a graining on the edge.
"And for the Half Sovereign, the obverse
in every respect similar to the Sovereign, and
for the reverse the same word 'AUSTRALIA,' in
the centre, encircled and surmounted in like
manner, but for the inscription the words
"SYDNEY MINT, HALF SOVEREIGN,' and a grain-
ing on the edge.
"Should it please your Majesty to approve
of the said Impression to be struck on the Aus-
tralian Sovereign and Half Sovereign, I hum-
bly request your Majesty will be graciously
pleased to signify your Majesty's commands
thereon, that the coinage may be proceeded
with as soon as the said Sydney Branch of the
Royal Mint shall come into operation."
Her Majesty having taken the said Represen-
tation into consideration, was pleased by and
with the advice of Her Privy Council, to ap-
prove of the therein described impression to be
struck on the said Australian Sovereign and
Half Sovereign. And the Right Honorable
the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury are to give the necessary directions
herein accordingly.
(L.S.). C. C. GREVILLE.
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NZ Gazette 1855, No 13
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💰 Approval of Designs for Australian Sovereign and Half Sovereign Coins
💰 Finance & Revenue18 October 1854
Royal Mint, Sydney, Coinage, Sovereign, Half Sovereign, Privy Council, Dies, Herschel
- ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary
- Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Baronet, Master of Her Majesty's Mint
- C. C. GREVILLE