Australian one-dollar coin

One Dollar
Australia
Value1.00 AUD
Mass9.00 g
Diameter25.00 mm
Thickness2.80 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 (1983-2023)
Charles III, King of Australia (2023-Present)
DesignerIan Rank-Broadley
Design date1999
Reverse
DesignFive kangaroos
DesignerStuart Devlin
Design date1983

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. One-dollar coins bearing the portrait of King Charles III entered circulation in December 2023.[4]

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]

  1. ^ "$200 Gold coin".
  2. ^ "$1 million coin minted". The Sydney Morning Herald. 28 October 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "One dollar". Royal Australian Mint. 14 May 1984. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  4. ^ "New Aussie dollar coin enters circulation". www.9news.com.au. 7 December 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  5. ^ "RBA Banknotes: Legal Tender". banknotes.rba.gov.au. Retrieved 24 July 2018.

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