His Royal Highness, The Duke of Edinburgh, officially opened the Royal Australian Mint, Canberra,
on Monday 22nd February 1965. The Mint was commissioned to produce Australia's decimal coinage,
which was to be introduced into circulation on 14th February 1966. The Royal Australian Mint holds
a place in history as the first mint in Australia not to be a branch of the Royal Mint, London.
Since opening in 1965 the Mint has produced over eleven billion circulating coins and has the
capacity to produce over two million coins per day, or over six hundred million coins per year.
The Mint also manufactures medals, medallions, seals and tokens for private and public sectors
and sporting and tourism groups, both nationally and internationally. Examples of these are The
Order of Australia, Third Pacific Conference Games Medallions, Sydney Monorail token and Conrad
Jupiter's Casino tokens.
Commitment to quality is the hallmark of the Royal Australian Mint, which was the first Mint in
the world to achieve accreditation to International Quality Standards ISO 9002. Strong emphasis
on quality control, innovative technology, research and development ensures a reputation that
is second to none.
At the Mint, we enjoy working in a challenging and well known organisation and are looking forward
to a newly refurbished building due for completion in 2009. New staff can look forward to working
in a new environment with state of the art technology.
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