Currency

On This Day

Holey dollar & dump coins, 1813

On 30 September 1813 the 'holey dollar' and 'dump' coins became legal tender in NSW by a proclamation issued by Governor Macquarie

George III farthing, 1817, excavated from beneath the ground floor of Hyde Park Barracks
Convict Sydney

Convict coins

This early colonial currency tells us that all kinds of coins changed convict hands at the Barracks