Dollar Coins

                Australian Dollar Coins                    

First introduced on the 14^th May 1984 to replace the $1 paper note which had been in circulation since the change over to Decimal Currency in 1966. The first dollars featured the iconic “Mob of Roos” but in later years there have been many commemorative dollars issued as well as the “Mob of Roos”

Compostion: 92% copper, 6% aluminium, 2% nickel. Weight: 9 grams: Diameter: 25 mm: Edge:Interupted milling.

Designers: Obverse - 1984; QE11 2^nd Effigy by Arnold Machin. Reverse: Mob of Roos by Stuart Devlin

1985 – 1998: Obverse; QE11 by Raphael Maklouf: Reverse; Mob of Roos by Stuart Devlin

1999 – 2019; Obverse; QE11 4^th Effigyby Ian Rank-Broadley: Reverse; Mob of Roos by Stuart Devlin

2019 onwards: Obverse; QE11 6^th Effigy by Jody Clark: Reverse; Mob of Roos by Stuart Devlin