Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Currency (Australian Coins) Amendment (2025 Royal Australian Mint No. 9) Determination 2025

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

Dated     8 September 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. 9) 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 2 (at the end of the table)

Add:

 

60

50¢

Copper and nickel

15.55 ± 0.96

31.65

3.16

S5

E2

O2

R49

05/09/2025

61

$5

At least 99.9% silver

31.103 + 3.00

32.30

6.00

S1

E1

O2

R50

05/09/2025

62

$100

At least 99.99% gold

31.103 + 1.50

39.00

2.70

S1

E1

O2

R51

05/09/2025

63

$1

At least 99.9% silver

31.103 + 3.00

40.60

4.00

S1

E1

O2

R50

05/09/2025

 

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

Add:

 

148

Reverse

R49

A design consisting of:

(a) a representation of a koala, with leaves in its mouth, sitting in the fork of a eucalyptus tree with a joey on its back; and

(b) a representation of another koala sleeping in the fork of another eucalyptus tree; and

(c) in the background, representations of eucalyptus leaves clustered into tree canopies; and

(d) the following:

(i) “KOALA”; and

(ii) a stylised representation of the designer’s initials “LA”.

149

Reverse

R50

The same as for item 148, except omit subparagraph (d)(ii), and substitute:

(ii) a stylised representation of the designer’s initials “LA”; and

(iii) “Xoz .999 Ag” (where “X” is the nominal weight in ounces of the coin, expressed as a whole number or common fraction in Arabic numerals).

150

Reverse

R51

The same as for item 148, except omit subparagraph (d)(ii), and substitute:

(ii) a stylised representation of the designer’s initials “LA”; and

(iii) “Xoz .9999 Au” (where “X” is the nominal weight in ounces of the coin, expressed as a whole number or common fraction in Arabic numerals).