Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Currency (Australian Coins) Amendment (2025 Royal Australian Mint No. 7) Determination 2025

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

Dated    29 July 2025

 

Dr Andrew Leigh

Assistant Minister for Productivity, 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. 7) 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.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Schedule 2025, Part 1, clause 1 (at the end of the table)

Add:

 

2

$2

Copper, aluminium and nickel

6.60 ± 0.60

20.62

3.70

S1

E3

O2

R44

01/08/2025

 

2 Schedule 2025, Part 1, clause 2 (at the end of the table)

Add:

 

51

$2

Copper, aluminium and nickel

6.60 ± 0.60

20.62

3.70

S1

E3

O2

R45

01/08/2025

52

$2

At least 99.9% silver

8.55 ± 0.25

20.70

3.40

S1

E3

O2

R45

01/08/2025

53

50¢

Copper and nickel

15.55 ± 0.96

31.65

3.16

S5

E2

O1

R46

01/08/2025

54

50¢

At least 99.9% silver

18.24 ± 0.50

31.65

3.20

S5

E2

O1

R46

01/08/2025

55

50¢

At least 99.99% gold

33.63 ± 0.25

31.79

3.30

S5

E2

O1

R46

01/08/2025

56

10¢

Copper and nickel

5.65 ± 0.49

23.82

2.30

S1

E1

O1

R47

01/08/2025

57

10¢

At least 99.9% silver

6.57 ± 0.30

23.80

2.20

S1

E1

O1

R47

01/08/2025

58

10¢

At least 99.99% gold

12.14 ± 0.15

23.85

2.35

S1

E1

O1

R47

01/08/2025

 

3 Schedule 2025, Part 1, clause 3 (at the end of the table)

Add:

 

143

Reverse

R44

A design consisting of:

(a) a coloured stylised representation of a wreath of poppy plants with 8 flowers, leaves and a ribbon intertwined; and

(b) surrounding the wreath, stylised representations of flowers and leaves; and

(c) the following:

(i) “REMEMBERING WWII”; and

(ii) “80 YEARS”; and

(iii) a stylised representation of the initials “AS”.

144

Reverse

R45

The same as for item 143, except omit subparagraph (c)(iii), and substitute:

(iii) a stylised representation of the initials “AS”; and

(iv) the letter “C”.

145

Reverse

R46

A design consisting of:

(a) stylised representations of the following symbols, contained within circular borders:

(i) a small scroll beneath the word “PENNY”, as historically depicted on the Australian halfpenny; and

(ii) a merino ram’s head as historically depicted on the Australian shilling, with 2 stars partially obscuring the border; and

(iii) the Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth (1908 to 1912), as historically depicted on the Australian sixpence; and

(iv) 3 stalks of grain partially obscuring a ribbon, as historically depicted on the Australian threepence; and

(v) the British Crown, as historically depicted on the Australian crown coin; and

(vi) the current Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth, as historically depicted on the Australian florin; and

(vii) a bounding kangaroo, as historically depicted on the Australian penny; and

(b) a pattern of triangles; and

(c) partially obscured by the triangles and symbols, thick textured lines; and

(d) the following:

(i) “60 YEARS OF DECIMAL CURRENCY”; and

(ii) “50”.

146

Reverse

R47

A design consisting of:

(a) shapes representing the rims and edges of Australian circulating decimal currency coins including:

(i) a partial dodecahedron; and

(ii) a circle, partially obscured by the dodecahedron; and

(iii) inside the dodecahedron, a partial circle with an interrupted milled edge; and

(iv) 2 partial circles, one with a continuously milled edge and the other an interrupted milled edge; and

(b) the following:

(i) “10”.