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Price paid for rare Australia Holey Dollar beats world record
A new record was set earlier this month when one of Australia’s oldest surviving coins, the famous Holey Dollar, was sold at a Melbourne auction house to a private collector for a staggering AUS$495,000, beating the previous record of AUS$485,000 set in 2011. The fascinating 200 year-old history behind the Holey Dollar – so-called because…
Ian Glen