The oldest state in Australia.

So here we have the Australian dollar, nominal - 1. The year of issue of this coin is 2014, mint: Perth, Australia. Total circulation – 300.000.

New South Wales was the first Australian colony to be established by the British. The southeastern coast of the continent was first sighted by Europeans in 1770 on the first voyage of Capt. James Cook, who took possession of what he called New South Wales in the name of King George III. The colony originally covered the eastern third of Australia from Cape York Peninsula to the tip of Van Diemen’s Land (later Tasmania).

Gradually after 1788 New South Wales was subdivided. Van Diemen’s Land ceased to come under the governor at Sydney in 1825, some 27 years after the explorer George Bass discovered that it was an island. The Port Phillip District, settled in the 1830s by pastoralists from Van Diemen’s Land and from farther north on the mainland, formed the nucleus of the colony of Victoria, which was separated from New South Wales in 1851 after considerable agitation.

Eight years later Queensland received self-government, which was administered from Brisbane, originally the centre of a penal settlement. No further changes were made to New South Wales until 1911, when a portion of territory 185 miles (300 km) southwest of Sydney was acquired by the federal government as the site for the national capital, named Canberra in 1913.