Coin - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Coins

Historical information

The Sunshine Lions Club built the Elderly Citizens Centre Watt Street corner of Corio Street, Sunshine.

The building works started in 1958 and the Lions District Governor Bill Burge Phillips laid the foundation stone and time capsule on the 12th February 1958. The building was opened by Victoria's Minister for Health, Ewen Paul Cameron MLC on the 4th March 1959.

This building which served the Elderly community of Sunshine and its district for nearly 50 years.

These coins were found in the glass jar that was found in the time capsule.
The building was subsequently sold to a church group and in 2026 the building was demolished due to the state of disrepair of the structure.

During the demolishing of building, the foundation stone and a time capsule from was recovered. The contents of the time capsule included a jar of coins and copies of the front page of the Sunshine Advocate.

These coins were inside the jar that was found in the time capsule.

Physical description

Collection of 11 predecimal Australian Coins

Inscriptions & markings

5853.01 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1954 Half Penny Coin Obverse Side.jpg
5853.01 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1954 Half Penny Coin Reverse Side.jpg
5853.02 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1936 Penny Coin Obverse Side.jpg
5853.02 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1936 Penny Coin Reverse Side.jpg
5853.03 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1945 Penny Coin Obverse Side.jpg
5853.03 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1945 Penny Coin Reverse Side.jpg
5853.04 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1953 Penny Coin Obverse Side.jpg
5853.04 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1953 Penny Coin Reverse Side.jpg
5853.05 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1955 Penny Coin Obverse Side.jpg
5853.05 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1955 Penny Coin Reverse Side.jpg
5853.06 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1936 Threepence Coin Obverse Side.jpg
5853.06 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1936 Threepence Coin Reverse Side.jpg
5853.07 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1951 Threepence Coin Obverse Side.jpg
5853.07 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1951 Threepence Coin Reverse Side.jpg
5853.08 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1942 Sixpence Coin Obverse Side.jpg
5853.08 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1942 Sixpence Coin Reverse Side.jpg
5853.09 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1948 Sixpence Coin Obverse Side.jpg
5853.09 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1948 Sixpence Coin Reverse Side.jpg
5853.10 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1951 Sixpence Coin Obverse Side.jpg
5853.10 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1951 Sixpence Coin Reverse Side.jpg
5853.11- Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1951 Sixpence Coin Obverse Side.jpg
5853.11 - Sunshine Lions Club Time Capsule - Australian 1951 Sixpence Coin Reverse Side.jpg

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