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Article: Seven Coins. Seven Locomotives. One Place to Find Them All.

50c coins

Seven Coins. Seven Locomotives. One Place to Find Them All.

If you've been following the Steam Giants series, you know what's in it. Seven locomotives — one from each state, plus the Commonwealth Railways — each on a 50c coloured uncirculated coin from the Royal Australian Mint. Each one a real machine with a real story behind it.

All seven are available at mintcoinshop.com.au.

We're a small Australian family business. Mint Coin Shop is operated by newsXpress Pty Ltd, and we've been working with independent retailers across this country for a long time. The coin store is our own — built because we wanted a proper Australian destination for collectors, not another generic online catalogue.

We're official stockists of the Royal Australian Mint, The Perth Mint and the New Zealand Mint. Every coin is stored in a smoke-free environment and packed carefully before it ships. Those aren't things we say for effect — they're just how you run a business when you care about what you're selling.

The Steam Giants series covers seven locomotives worth knowing: Queensland's No. 1009, the last surviving Queensland Beyer-Garratt. V1220 from Western Australia, which hauled the final WAGR steam service in 1972. Tasmania's Q5, pulled from the scrap heap in the 1960s by a museum that moved fast. Victoria's Heavy Harry — largest steam locomotive ever built in Australia, and too heavy for some of the bridges on its own route. The Commonwealth Railways G1, the only surviving standard gauge locomotive of its kind. NSW's 6029, still running under steam today. And South Australia's Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, named after a Governor, built during wartime, still in the care of SteamRanger.

Each coin is $17.50. Mintage capped at 35,000 per design. Buy one or buy all seven — we have them.

To everyone who has ordered from us: thank you. A small Australian family business runs on the support of people who choose to shop here rather than somewhere else. We don't take that for granted. Every order matters, every customer is appreciated, and we'll keep doing our best to earn it.

Visit mintcoinshop.com.au.

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