Britannia plays a key role in Australian currency history due to the extensive use of British coinage for more than a century after Settlement in 1788. She was of course first seen in Australia upon the broad flan of the 1797 Cartwheel Penny and Twopence – the trigger for the Currency Proclamation of 1800 – as well as the halfpennies and pennies that circulated up to the introduction of Australian copper coinage in 1911. Now, for the first time in over 100 years, Britannia has made a dramatic return to the Australian numismatic scene!