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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-, and two-hundred-dollar coins[3]).
Australia | |
| Value | 1.00 AUD |
|---|---|
| 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 | Queen Elizabeth II (1984–2023) King Charles III (2023–present)[1] |
| Designer | Various (1984–2023) Dan Thorne (2023–present)[2] |
| Design date | 2023 |
| Reverse | |
 | |
| Design | Five kangaroos |
| Designer | Stuart Devlin |
| Design date | 1983 |
It was first issued on 14 May 1984[4] to replace the one-dollar note which was then in circulation, although plans to introduce a dollar coin had existed since the mid-1970s.[4] The first year of minting saw 186.3 million of the coins produced at the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra.[4]
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. One-dollar coins bearing the portrait of King Charles III entered circulation in December 2023.[1]
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.
$1 coins are legal tender for amounts not exceeding 10 times the face value of the coin for any payment of a debt.[5]
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 21,900,000 (2014) 1,400,000 (2015) 2,190,000 (2016) 1,900,000 (2017) 2,000,000 (2018) |
| 2016 | 50th Anniversary of Decimal Currency | 560,000 |
| 2019 | Australia’s Dollar Discovery – 35 years of the Australian $1 coin. | 1,513,000 (Letter A)
1,512,000 (Letter U) 1,512,000 (Letter S) |
| 2020 | Celebrating a 100 years of Qantas | 2,000,000 |
| 2020 – 2021 | Donation Dollar – the world's first one dollar coin designed to be donated | 12,500,000 (2020)
5,000,000 (2021) |
| 2024 | Bluey (2018 TV series) – Three coins, one of Bluey Heeler, one of the Heeler family, and one of Bluey and Bingo Heeler dressed as old women/grannies | |
| References:[4] | ||
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