Currency (Australian Coins) Amendment (2025 Royal Australian Mint No. 3) Determination 2025
I, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.
Dated 4 March 2025
Dr Andrew Leigh
Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Currency (Australian Coins) Determination 2019
This instrument is the Currency (Australian Coins) Amendment (2025 Royal Australian Mint No. 3) Determination 2025.
(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. |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
This instrument is made under the Currency Act 1965.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
1 Before Schedule 2025, Part 1, clause 2
Insert:
Each item of the following table specifies the standard composition, the standard weight, the allowable variation from that standard weight, the design and the dimensions of a coin whose denomination and standard composition are specified in that item.
Specifications of coins | ||||||||||||||||
Item | Denomination | Standard composition | Standard weight and allowable variation (g) | |||||||||||||
1 | $2 | Copper, aluminium and nickel | 6.60 ± 0.60 | 20.62 | 3.70 | S1 | E3 | O2 | R24 | 28/02/2025 | ||||||
2 Schedule 2025, Part 1, clause 2 (at the end of the table)
Add:
26 | $2 | Copper, aluminium, and nickel | 6.60 ± 0.60 | 20.62 | 3.70 | S1 | E3 | O2 | R25 | 28/02/2025 |
27 | $2 | At least 99.9% silver | 8.55 ± 0.25 | 20.70 | 3.40 | S1 | E3 | O2 | R25 | 28/02/2025 |
3 Schedule 2025, Part 1, clause 3 (at the end of the table)
Insert:
123 | Reverse | R24 | A design, inspired by the Torres Strait Islander Flag (as proclaimed in the Proclamation under the Flags Act 1953 (Torres Strait Islander Flag)), consisting of: (a) a central circle containing a representation of a traditional Torres Strait Islander headdress (known as a Dhari) with a five‑pointed star beneath it; and (b) surrounding the central circle, a colour pattern of 5 concentric circles of blue, white, black and green superimposed on a pattern of segmented concentric circles; and (c) in the background, and partially obscured by the headdress, star and concentric circles, a representation of a section of the artwork Coral Reef Garden by Erub Island artist, Lavinia Ketchell; and (d) the following: (i) “TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER FLAG”; and (ii) “1995-2025”. |
124 | Reverse | R25 | The same as for item 123, except omit subparagraph (e)(ii), and substitute: (ii) “1995-2025”; and (iii) “C”. |