Every day, Australians carry some of his work in their pockets. Stuart Devlin (1931-2018) designed the decimal currency introduced in 1966. He also designed coins for 30 other countries including the UK and Singapore. However, coins represented only one part of Devlin’s extraordinary career. Born in Geelong, his early academic success brought travelling scholarships which exposed him to the newest trends in silverwork, but soon enough he was setting the trends.