This year's spectacular Young Collectors offering from The Perth Mint comprises nine $1 Space coins housed in a lavishly illustrated presentation album packed with many exciting ‘extras'. The 2009 release represents a magnificent acquisition that will encourage many more young people to develop an interest in coin collecting.

The ‘extras':

Information Book
The wonderfully illustrated information book features informative texts written with help from experts at The Perth Observatory. Providing answers to many of the questions young people have about space, the book provides a great introduction to each of the planets in our Solar System, with fascinating ‘Did You Know' sections highlighting extraordinary and unusual facts.

Activity Book
The activity book features two young space characters who present a variety of brain-teasing word and picture puzzles

Asteroids DVD
Presented by National Geographic, the captivating 60-minute DVD features geologist Eugene Shoemaker and his wife Carolyn who have remapped the heavens with their discoveries of more than 30 comets and hundreds of asteroids. (The DVD is encoded Region 4 PAL)

Posters
Measuring 40cm by 69cm (approx) two glossy coloured posters feature stunning images of:
- the Space Shuttle in orbit above Earth.
- a magnificent interstellar dust cloud called the Horsehead Nebula.

This year's Young Collectors program comprises nine Australian $1 coins entitled:

1. Astronomers
2. Craters
3. Rockets
4. Moons
5. Observatories
6. Shuttles
7. Space Telescopes
8. Rovers
9. Space Probes