YOUNG COLLECTORS SET TO INSPIRE NEW GENERATION OF COIN COLLECTORS
Filed Under: Perth Mint, Mint News, Education & Seminars, General Collecting
In a market-leading initiative designed to help create a new generation of coin collectors, The Perth Mint has announced Young Collectors, the first Australian legal tender coin program exclusively designed, packaged and priced for 8 to 12 year-old children.
With the number of mature-aged collectors in decline around the world, Perth Mint Sales and Marketing Director Ron Currie said that the industry was in agreement that new initiatives were needed to boost participation in one of the world’s oldest hobbies.
“Young Collectors is set to tackle the challenge with a program of annual releases portraying themes appealing to children,” he said. “It starts in 2008 with the release of 12 Australian Animal $1 coins on brightly illustrated information cards.”
Mr Currie said that the program would also appeal to adult collectors wishing to share their passion for coins. “We’re hopeful that they will see Young Collectors as the ideal way of igniting young people’s interest in the hobby. Consequently, we’ll be promoting the program as a great gift idea, particularly for people looking for traditional toys with educational value and enduring appeal.”
Featuring the Wedge Tailed Eagle, Grey Kangaroo, Australian Sea Lion, Palm Cockatoo, Echidna, Platypus, Ghost Bat, Common Wombat, Green Turtle, Splendid Wren, Frilled Neck Lizard and Whale Shark, Young Collectors portrays many popular Australian animals. Each coin’s accompanying presentation card offers fascinating animal facts validated by expert staff from two leading Australian Museums. (more…)

The second release from The Perth Mint’s innovative Orbit and Beyond Series celebrates Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and national hero, who became the first human in space and the first to orbit the Earth on 12 April 1961.
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A follow-up to the original Historical Coin Collection (which was sold out), the second Historical Coin Collection is a celebration of Australia’s currency heritage. Individual coins to be released in 2008, include 12 releases, each with a reverse design portraying a coin or token of historic importance.
The obverse of each coin, which is released as legal tender of the Cook Islands, portrays Raphael Maklouf’s portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and includes a wooden velvet-lined presentation case along with a Replica Collection comprising actual size replicas of all 12 historical coins and tokens.
Perth Mint Chief Executive Officer, Ed Harbuz said “revitalising The Perth Mint brand was necessary to echo expanding global business activities and to provide flexibility to adapt to the increasingly varied media in which the Mint features.”















