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"The Money Museum". Opened 9/12/1988.
3 Graves Street, Kadina, S.A. 5554
Mick Vort-Ronald
( ABN 73 975 917 060 )
150 km north-west of Adelaide via Pt. Wakefield
Fellow and past President of the
Numismatic Society of South Australia Inc.
President, Yorke Peninsula Collectables Club.
Final editor of the Australian Coin Review.
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SOON CLOSING PERMANENTLY,
Last day open, 19 December 2008.
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Some of the many money boxes on display
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Multiple Regional Tourism Award Winner
Including 6 times best tourist attraction on
Yorke Peninsula. Featured on TV in
"Healthy Wealthy & Wise", "Postcards" and ABC "Collectors".
YP Tourism Awards, October, 2005.
Best tourist attraction, and best museum
Open Sunday to Thursday 10 am - 4.30 pm.
Closed in June. Tourist Information. Home of the
Cornish Festival medal collection. Coins, notes,
medals bought and sold.
Albums, reference books, catalogues.
Adults $5, Children $2, Concession $4,
Group Concessions.
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Over 2,900 money boxes on display.
Gems, minerals, fossils, meteorites and
special ultraviolet displays.
Strongroom wallpapered with sheets of uncut notes,
and printing errors. Medals, tokens, shipwreck coins,
Roman coins and lots of banking memorabilia
and machines.
Only museum of its type in Australia, if not the world.
Complete Australian banknote albums
Pre-decimal albums 10/- ~ £1,000
Decimal albums $1.00 ~ $100.00
$225.00 each posted.
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Author and publisher of the following reference books ( and others ). G.S.T. not charged
Banks of Issue in Australia (1982). History of the note issuing banks and their notes.
331 pages,313 illustrations. Hard cover $30, soft cover $20, plus postage.
Australian Banknotes 1913-1966 2nd edition (1983). A detailed study of the Pound series notes,
344 pages, 309 illustrations. Hard cover $35, soft cover $20, plus postage.
Australian Decimal Banknotes, Paper issues, 2nd edition (2000),
a detailed study of the paper decimal notes including unused designs and printing errors,
416 pages, 482 pictures. hard cover $49, soft cover $39, plus postage.
Hoskins of South Australia (1995). History of Andrew Hoskins and his descendants in South Australia from
1840, 350 pages, 950 pictures, 2,500 people including extended families of Gilbert, Dobinson, Lewis. Soft cover
$20, plus postage.
Chinese Embers (1995), Memoirs of the South Australian wife of a French banker in China in the 1920s, a
series of illustrated and cartooned short stories. Paperback 88 pages $8, plus postage $2 within Australia.
Australian Banknote Pedigrees (2005).
Auction and sales results for the past 30 years of pre-decimal, superscribed and decimal star notes by serial number.
508 pages, soft cover $69, plus $10 p/p.
Moneyboxes from Banks, Building Societies and Credit Unions
A detailed book of 300 A-4 size pages and 950 illustrations with histories of issuers and including other issues
e.g.Allens
and 70 pages of illustations of foreign bank money boxes.
$59 each plus $10 postage in Australia.
Australian Shinplaster & Calabash Notes
Australian Outback Currency, IOUs and similar notes issued mostly in the Australian outback by hotels and stores
from 1880s to 1940s.
Full colour cover, large black and white illustations
104 A-4 size pages, $20 posted in Australia.
Second edition, 28 more pages and 70 more illustrations from notes in the Mitchell
and Dixson Libraries, Sydney, and the Australian National Library, Canberra.
132 pages, 202 pictures, $25 each posted in Australia.
Australian Banknote Serial Number Studies
A record by serial number of Australian notes sold or offered during 2005.
First annual update to Australian Banknote Pedigrees.
124 A-4 size pages, $20 posted in Australia.
Australian Banknote Sales
Volume 2, 2006, notes sold or offered during 2006 with serial numbers, sellers, conditions and prices as per Serial
Number Studies.
Second annual update to Pedigrees. 128 A-4 size pages, $25 posted in Australia.
Australian Colonial Currency & Promissory Notes,early paper currency of
New South Wales from 1803-1813 and Tasmania from 1822-1826.
112 pages, 133 illustrations, Sorry Sold Out
Miscellaneous Australian Notes, including German New Guinea, Hay Camp, Hutt River Province, War Savings
Certificates, advertising notes and coupons
and an extensive coverage of political "funny money".
Second Edition 132 pages, $28 each posted.
Joseph Phillips, Skinner's Bottom, Cornwall to South Australia.
History of a Phillips family at St. Agnes that migrated to S.A.
and Victoria. 136 pages, $25 each posted.
NEW LIMITED EDITION BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 2008
Australian Banknote Sales, Volume 3, 2007.
Annual record of sales of Australian banknotes in 2007. Bring yourself right up to date with current market prices
of all the rare Australian banknotes. The coloured cover features the £1,000 note that sold for $1.2 million.
116 A-4 pages, $25 posted.
CAB Index for The Australasian Coin & Bank note Magazine 1996-2007.
There are more than 7,000 pages in 130 issues of this premier collector magazine.
The index will enable you to find all items of interest. 80 A-4 pages, $20 posted.
South Australian Bank Branches, Volume 1, The Bank of Adelaide.
Chronological and alphabetical listings of all branches from 1865 to 1980 with
pictures of branches, dates of opening and closing and names of first managers.
Includes illustrations of the bank's notes and cheques. 116 A-4 pages, $25 posted.
South Australian Bank Branches, Volume 2, The English, Scottish &
Australian Bank and its cheques.
Details of branches from 1864 to 1970 as per Bank of Adelaide above, plus
a comprehensive study of their cheque forms used for over 100 years.
104 A-4 pages, $25 posted.
South Australian Promissory Notes (paid through banks) 1866-1890.
A detailed study of promissory notes from the ES&A Clare hoard discovered in 1983 with cheques from mostly
Adelaide businesses in the 1870s and 1880s arranged in alphabetical order with their advertisements. 120 A-4 pages,
$25 posted.
Australian Superscribed Banknotes.
When the Commonwealth Treasury took over the issue of Australian banknotes
from the individual banks it overprinted notes of 15 banks and the Queensland Government. These were known as Superscribed
notes. Today they are rare and
very valuable. This book tells the story and records all sales. 108 A-4 pages, $25 posted.
Banking & Currency Museum
Kadina, South Australia
History of Bank branch from 1861 & the museum contents, 112 pages, $25 posted.
COMING
Individual books on other bank's branches in South Australia.
Second edition of Australian Colonial Currency & Promissory Notes.
One or two books (except Pedigrees) anywhere in Australia by Australia Post satchel for $10.
Registration and insurance by parcel post at rates depending on destination.
Please pay by cheque or money order to M.P. Vort-Ronald, 3 Graves St., Kadina 5554,
or by EFT to ANZ 015 590 5807 85528 with surname.
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