Australian one-dollar coin

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]).

One Dollar
Australia
Value1.00 AUD
Mass9.00 g
Diameter25.00 mm
Thickness3.00 mm
Edgeinterrupted milled 0.25 mm 77 notches
Composition92% Copper, 6% Aluminium, 2% Nickel
Years of minting1984–present
Catalog number—
Obverse
DesignElizabeth II, Queen of Australia
DesignerIan Rank-Broadley
Design date1999
Reverse
DesignFive kangaroos
DesignerStuart Devlin
Design date1983

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
Main article: Commemorative coins of Australia

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.

YearSubjectMintage
1986International Year of Peace25,200,000
1988Commemoration the Australian Bicentennial21,600,000
1993Landcare Australia18,200,000
1996Sir Henry Parkes26,200,000
1997Birth of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith24,400,000
1999International Year of Older Persons29,300,000
2001Centenary of Federation27,900,000
International Year of Volunteers6,000,000
2002Year of the Outback35,400,000
2003Australia's Volunteers4,100,000
Centenary of Women's Suffrage10,000,000
200560th Anniversary of the End of World War II34,200,000
2007Australia's hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum20,100,000
2008Centenary of Scouting in Australia17,200,000
2009100th Year of the Age Pension21,300,000
2010Centenary of Girl Guiding in Australia12,600,000
2011Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting9,400,000
2014 -
2018		Centenary of ANZAC 2014-201821,800,000 (2014)
1,300,000 (2015)
1,800,000* (2016)
201650th Anniversary of Decimal Currency560,000
"*" denotes partial numbers for 2016 - total production to be confirmed
References:[5]

See also

References

Citations
  1. "$200 Gold coin".
  2. "$1 million coin minted". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 October 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  3. "One dollar". Royal Australian Mint. 14 May 1984. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  4. "RBA Banknotes: Legal Tender". banknotes.rba.gov.au. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  5. "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.
Preceded by
One Dollar Note (Australian)		 One Dollar (Australian)
1984–present		 Succeeded by
Present
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