2012 $10 Wheat Sheaf Dollar 1/10oz Gold Proof Coin

When Governor Phillip led the colony of New South Wales, he strove to make the newly established settlement self-sufficient and assigned the convict James Ruse to establish Australia’s first farm. Ruse’s success brought him freedom and seeded the agricultural future of the nation. This coin features the ‘three wheat stalk’ George Kruger Gray design from the 1938 threepence coin. This embellishment reflects a period of booming agriculture at the time of the threepence’s circulation, and the role that primary production, particularly of wheat and wool, played in Australian history.