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Currency (Australian Coins) Amendment (2024 Royal Australian Mint No. 5) Determination 2024

I, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.

Dated     29 May 2024

 

Dr Andrew Leigh

Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer

 

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name 

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Currency (Australian Coins) Determination 2019

1  Name

  This instrument is the Currency (Australian Coins) Amendment (2024 Royal Australian Mint No. 5) Determination 2024.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The day after this instrument is registered.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Currency Act 1965.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

 

Currency (Australian Coins) Determination 2019

1 Schedule 2024, Part 1, clause 2 (at the end of the table)

Add:

 

91

50¢

Copper and nickel

15.55 ± 0.96

31.65

3.16

S5

E2

O2

R81

28/05/2024

92

$1

Copper, aluminium and nickel

9.00 ± 0.66

25.20

3.46

S1

E3

O1

R82

28/05/2024

93

20¢

Copper and nickel

11.30 ± 0.78

28.65

2.92

S1

E1

O1

R83

28/05/2024

94

20¢

Copper and nickel with gold plating

11.30 ± 0.78

28.65

2.92

S1

E1

O1

R83

28/05/2024

 

2 Schedule 2024, Part 1, clause 3 (at the end of the table)

Add:

 

180

Reverse

R81

A design consisting of:

(a) a kaleidoscopic pattern of stylised trees, inspired by the Western Australian Christmas tree (Nuytsia floribunda), leaves and stars; and

(b) the canopy of each stylised tree is coloured; and

(c) the following:

(i) the inscription, in Arabic numerals, of a year; and

(ii) “LA”.

181

Reverse

R82

A design consisting of:

(a) in the background, a representation of a path trailing through varying terrain leading towards a station; and

(b) in the foreground, a representation of 4 horses drawing a loaded coach with a coachman holding a whip and reins; and

(c) the following:

(i) “COBB & CO”; and

(ii) “LAST COACH SERVICE”; and

(iii) Arabic numerals for the amount, in dollars or cents, of the denomination of the coin, followed by “DOLLARS”, “DOLLAR” or “CENTS” as the case requires; and

(iv) “AWB”.

182

Reverse

R83

A design, inspired by Judy Horacek’s illustration from the children’s book Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox, consisting of:

(a) a stylised representation of a sheep reading a book; and

(b) a representation of a thought bubble, partially obscured by the reading sheep, containing 3 coloured sheep in a pasture of green grass and coloured flowers; and

(c) the following:

(i) “20TH ANNIVERSARY OF”; and

(ii) “WHERE IS THE GREEN SHEEP?”; and

(iii) “20”.