Australian one-dollar coin
Australia | |
Value | 1.00 AUD |
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Mass | 9.00 g |
Diameter | 25.00 mm |
Thickness | 2.80 mm |
Edge | interrupted milled 0.25 mm 77 notches |
Composition | 92% Copper, 6% Aluminium, 2% Nickel |
Years of minting | 1984–present |
Catalog number | — |
Obverse | |
Design | Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia |
Designer | Ian Rank-Broadley |
Design date | 1999 |
Reverse | |
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Design | Five kangaroos |
Designer | Stuart Devlin |
Design date | 1983 |
The Australian one-dollar coin is the second most valuable circulation denomination coin of the Australian dollar after the two-dollar coin; there are also non-circulating legal-tender coins of higher denominations (five-, ten-, two-hundred-dollar coins[1] and the one-million-dollar coin[2]).
It was first issued on 14 May 1984[3] to replace the one-dollar note which was then in circulation, although plans to introduce a dollar coin had existed since the mid-1970s.[3] The first year of minting saw 186.3 million of the coins produced at the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra.[3]
Four portraits of Queen Elizabeth II have featured on the obverse, the 1984 head of Queen Elizabeth II by Arnold Machin; between 1985 and 1998, the head by Raphael Maklouf; between 1999 and 2009, the head by Ian Rank-Broadley; and since 2019, the effigy of Elizabeth II by artist Jody Clark has been released into circulation. The coin features an inscription on its obverse of AUSTRALIA on the right-hand side and ELIZABETH II on the left-hand side.
The reverse features five kangaroos. The image was designed by Stuart Devlin, who designed Australia's first decimal coins in 1966.
The one-dollar denomination was only issued in coin sets in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, and finally 2012. No one-dollar coin with any mint mark was ever released for circulation; any dollars found with such mark comes for a card.
The one-dollar and two-dollar coins are legal tender up to the sum of (but not exceeding) 10 times the face value of the coin concerned.[4]
Commemorative issue[]
The Royal Australian Mint has released a number of commemorative issued coins since the Australian $1 was released in 1984, some of which were not released into circulation.
Year | Subject | Mintage | |
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1986 | International Year of Peace | 25,200,000 | |
1988 | Commemoration the Australian Bicentennial | 21,600,000 | |
1993 | Landcare Australia | 18,200,000 | |
1996 | Sir Henry Parkes | 26,200,000 | |
1997 | Birth of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith | 24,400,000 | |
1999 | International Year of Older Persons | 29,300,000 | |
2001 | Centenary of Federation | 27,900,000 | |
International Year of Volunteers | 6,000,000 | ||
2002 | Year of the Outback | 35,400,000 | |
2003 | Australia's Volunteers | 4,100,000 | |
Centenary of Women's Suffrage | 10,000,000 | ||
2005 | 60th Anniversary of the End of World War II | 34,200,000 | |
2007 | Australia's hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum | 20,100,000 | |
2008 | Centenary of Scouting in Australia | 17,200,000 | |
2009 | 100th Year of the Age Pension | 21,300,000 | |
2010 | Centenary of Girl Guiding in Australia | 12,600,000 | |
2011 | Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting | 9,400,000 | |
2014 - 2018 |
Centenary of ANZAC 2014-2018 | 21,800,000 (2014) 1,300,000 (2015) 1,800,000* (2016) | |
2016 | 50th Anniversary of Decimal Currency | 560,000 | |
2020 | Celebrating a 100 years of Qantas | ||
2020 | The world's first one dollar coin designed to be donated | ||
"*" denotes partial numbers for 2016 - total production to be confirmed | |||
References:[5] |
See also[]
References[]
Citations[]
- ^ "$200 Gold coin".
- ^ "$1 million coin minted". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 October 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
- ^ a b c "One dollar". Royal Australian Mint. 14 May 1984. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ^ "RBA Banknotes: Legal Tender". banknotes.rba.gov.au. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ "One Dollar". Royal Australian Mint. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
Sources[]
- Pitt, Ian W., ed. (2000). Renniks Australian Coin and Banknote Values (19th ed.). Chippendale, NSW: Renniks Publications. ISBN 0-9585574-4-6.
External links[]
- Currencies introduced in 1984
- Decimal coins of Australia
- One-base-unit coins