5 November, 2012 9:45AM AEDT

Making a Mint: the most valuable money in Australia

If you have some coins in your pocket then they were made at the Royal Australian Mint, but some are more valuable than others

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How much money do you have on you right now?

If you have some loose change it was made at the Royal Australian Mint.

Established in 1962 to accommodate the switch to decimal currency, the Mint has been making our pockets jingle and jangle ever since.

They're also a repository for some of our rarer legal tender, with many coins worth much more than face value as part of the national coin collection.

The most valuable coin set, the Kookaburra Square Pennies, is also the rarest making it worth around $800,000.