2024 $1 Cobb & Co - Centenary Of The Last Coach Service In Australia Uncirculated Coin
At the height of the 1850s Victorian gold rush, four newly arrived Americans, Freeman Cobb and three colleagues, saw the opportunity to launch a transport business, using horse-drawn carriages like those in the American west. From that first journey in 1853, Cobb & Co coach routes crisscrossed Eastern Australia, establishing a reputation for speed and reliability.
Although railways progressively connected major towns, Cobb & Co instead linked more distant communities. Horses needed to be changed every 15-25 kilometres at a network of waystations, often inns, directly contributing to the opening of rural Australia. Cobb & Co’s final journey came on 14 August 1924, ending the era of horse-drawn transport in Australia. The reason – the advent of reliable motor vehicles.
That last ever journey, 65 kilometres from Surat to Yuleba in southern Queensland, is commemorated with the Royal Australian Mint’s stunning new $1 collector coin.
Coin Highlights:
- Coin’s reverse design depicts a stylised scene of a Cobb & Co Coach and passengers as they are about to reach a station, designed by A. Ball
- Struck to the Mint’s uncirculated standard
- Maximum mintage of 37,500 coins
- Australian legal tender
At the height of the 1850s Victorian gold rush, four newly arrived Americans, Freeman Cobb and three colleagues, saw the opportunity to launch a transport business, using horse-drawn carriages like those in the American west. From that first journey in 1853, Cobb & Co coach routes crisscrossed Eastern Australia, establishing a reputation for speed and reliability.
Although railways progressively connected major towns, Cobb & Co instead linked more distant communities. Horses needed to be changed every 15-25 kilometres at a network of waystations, often inns, directly contributing to the opening of rural Australia. Cobb & Co’s final journey came on 14 August 1924, ending the era of horse-drawn transport in Australia. The reason – the advent of reliable motor vehicles.
That last ever journey, 65 kilometres from Surat to Yuleba in southern Queensland, is commemorated with the Royal Australian Mint’s stunning new $1 collector coin.
Coin Highlights:
- Coin’s reverse design depicts a stylised scene of a Cobb & Co Coach and passengers as they are about to reach a station, designed by A. Ball
- Struck to the Mint’s uncirculated standard
- Maximum mintage of 37,500 coins
- Australian legal tender
Original: $12.52
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At the height of the 1850s Victorian gold rush, four newly arrived Americans, Freeman Cobb and three colleagues, saw the opportunity to launch a transport business, using horse-drawn carriages like those in the American west. From that first journey in 1853, Cobb & Co coach routes crisscrossed Eastern Australia, establishing a reputation for speed and reliability.
Although railways progressively connected major towns, Cobb & Co instead linked more distant communities. Horses needed to be changed every 15-25 kilometres at a network of waystations, often inns, directly contributing to the opening of rural Australia. Cobb & Co’s final journey came on 14 August 1924, ending the era of horse-drawn transport in Australia. The reason – the advent of reliable motor vehicles.
That last ever journey, 65 kilometres from Surat to Yuleba in southern Queensland, is commemorated with the Royal Australian Mint’s stunning new $1 collector coin.
Coin Highlights:
- Coin’s reverse design depicts a stylised scene of a Cobb & Co Coach and passengers as they are about to reach a station, designed by A. Ball
- Struck to the Mint’s uncirculated standard
- Maximum mintage of 37,500 coins
- Australian legal tender
