The Transformers Silver Proof Collector Coins are available now from the Perth Mint, one featuring the Optimus Prime, heroic Autobots leader, and the other depicting Megatron, the evil Deceptacon leader, were minted with the approval of Dreamworks and Hasbro.
Sure to capture the interest of movie fans, coin collectors and more importantly the eye’s of the young who may step toward a new hobby in numismatics, each coinis struck from 1 oz. of 99.9% pure silver in proof quality.
Hasbro initiated the Transformers line in 1984, and a cartoon series featuring the …

Celebrating the 500th anniversary of the ascension of a king considered to be controversial at the least, the Royal Mint has issued the 2009 UK Henry VIII £5 coins. These coins are available in silver, platinum, gold and cupro-nickel.
Dave Knight, Director of Commemorative Coins at the Royal Mint:

Love him or hate him, King Henry VIII is undoubtedly one of history’s most influential monarchs. His reign changed the face of England forever and we felt it was essential that this remarkable period of history was commemorated with a lasting …

By Mike Thorne, Coins Magazine

1908-S Indian Head cent in Very Good-8.
1911-S Lincoln cent in EF-40.
1924-S or 1926-S Buffalo nickel in F-12.
1913-S Barber dime in VG-8.
1926-S Mercury dime in VF-20.
1913 Barber quarter in F-12.
1913 Barber half dollar in VG-8.
1921-S Walking Liberty half dollar in VG-8.
1886-S or 1889-S Morgan dollar in EF-40.
1927 Peace dollar in MS-60.

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The 1st Austrian electric train was a small locomotive circling in the exhibition pavilion in the Prater on the occasion of the Emperor Franz Joseph’s 50th birthday. The same monarch issued a licence in 1882 (2 years later) for the 1st public electric railway.

It used DC power supply and was a 5 kilometer long stretch carrying day-trippers from the country town of Moedling into the Bruehl valley. Other short branch lines soon followed. The introduction of AC proved the most reliable for longer railway lines, and in 1911 engines using AC were put into service on the 90 km stretch to the pilgrimage centre of Mariazell.

Best known for his theory on evolution, Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire in February 1809 into a wealthy and well-connected family. Darwin had initially planned to study medicine at Edinburgh University but later switched to studying Divinity at Cambridge.