Birmingham Mint presses and six planchet presses for making blanks from strip metal. These were installed at the Bath Street works, and in that year trade tokens were struck for use in Australia. In 1851 coins were struck for Chile using the letter "H" as a mintmark. The same year copper planchets were made for the Royal Mint to make into pennies, halfpennies, farthings, half-farthings and quarter-farthings. In 1852 the Mint won a contract to produce a new series of coins for France. In this the Mint pioneered the minting of bronze. Ralph Heaton III (son of Ralph II) took key workers
Jamie Blanks Jamie Blanks Jamie Blanks is an Australian film director and composer. He is probably most famous for directing the 1998 cult slasher film "Urban Legend". He attended film school at Melbourne’s Swinburne Film School (becoming the Victorian College of the Arts during his three years of study). Blanks gave commentaries on the "Urban Legend" and "Valentine" (2001) DVDs. His third feature "Storm Warning" won awards for Special Effects and Score at Screamfest 2007. Blanks shot, edited and composed the score for his fourth feature, "Long Weekend" (released on video in the United States as "Nature's Grave"), starring Jim Caviezel and