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Line 9: \| Mass = 9.00 \| Diameter = 25.00 \| Thickness = 32.0080 \| Edge = interrupted milled 0.25 mm 77 notches \| Composition = 92% [[Copper]], 6% [[Aluminium]], 2% [[Nickel]] Line 15: \| Catalog Number = — \| Obverse = \| Obverse Design = [[Elizabeth II\|Queen Elizabeth II]] (1984–2023)<br>[[Charles III\|King Charles III]] (2023–present)<ref name="2023coin">{{Cite web \|date=2023-12-07 \|title=New Aussie dollar coin enters circulation \|url=https://www.9news.com.au/finance/king-charles-iii-coins-enter-circulation-in-australia/349c2ec1-28e2-4c33-aabc-ae1bc0e3c46c \|access-date=2024-04-03 \|website=www.9news.com.au}}</ref> ~~\| Obverse Design = [[Elizabeth II]], [[Queen of Australia]]~~ \| Obverse Designer = Various (1984–2023)<br>Dan Thorne (2023–present)<ref>{{cite web \|title=Heads or Tails \|url=https://www.ramint.gov.au/heads-or-tails-0 \|website=Australian Government Royal Australian Mint \|access-date=30 June 2024}}</ref> ~~\| Obverse Designer = [[Ian Rank-Broadley]]~~ \| Obverse Design Date = ~~1999~~2023 \| Reverse = Australian $1 Coin.png \| Reverse Design = Five [[kangaroo]]s Line 24: }} The '''Australian one-dollar coin''' is the second most valuable circulation denomination coin of the [[Australian dollar]] after the [[Australian two-dollar coin\|two-dollar coin]]; there are also non-circulating legal-tender coins of higher denominations (five-, ten-, and two-hundred-dollar coins<ref name="200coin">{{cite web\|url=http://www.australian-coins.com/collecting-coins/australian-200-dollar-coins/ \|title=$200 Gold coin}}</ref> and the one-million-dollar coin<ref name="milcoin">{{cite web\|url=http://www.smh.com.au/business/1-million-coin-minted-20111027-1mm8b.html \|title=$1 million coin minted \|work=The Sydney Morning Herald\|date=2011-10-28 \|accessdate=2016-11-18}}</ref>). It was first issued on 14 May 1984<ref name="ramint1">{{cite web\|url=https://www.ramint.gov.au/one-dollar \|title=One dollar \|publisher=Royal Australian Mint \|date=1984-05-14 \|~~accessdate~~access-date=2016-11-28}}</ref> to replace the [[Australian one-dollar note\|one-dollar note]] which was then in circulation, although plans to introduce a dollar coin had existed since the mid-1970s.<ref name="ramint1" /> The first year of minting saw 186.3 million of the coins produced at the [[Royal Australian Mint]] in [[Canberra]].<ref name="ramint1"/> ~~Three~~Four portraits of [[Queen Elizabeth II]] have featured on the obverse, the 1984 head of Queen Elizabeth II by [[Arnold Machin]]; between 1985 and 1998, the head by [[Raphael Maklouf]]; ~~and, since~~between 1999 and 2009, the head by Ian Rank-Broadley; and since 2019, the effigy of Elizabeth II by artist [[Jody Clark]] has been released into circulation. The coin features an inscription on its obverse of AUSTRALIA on the right-hand side and ELIZABETH II on the left-hand side. One-dollar coins bearing the portrait of King [[Charles III]] entered circulation in December 2023.<ref name="2023coin"/> The reverse features five [[kangaroo]]s. The image was designed by [[Stuart Devlin]], who designed Australia's first decimal coins in 1966. Line 34: The one-dollar denomination was only issued in coin sets in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, and finally 2012. No one-dollar coin with any mint mark was ever released for circulation; any dollars found with such mark comes for a card. ~~The one-dollar and [[Australian two-dollar coin\|two-dollar]]~~$1 coins are legal tender upfor ~~to the sum of (but~~amounts not exceeding) 10 times the face value of the coin ~~concerned~~for any payment of a debt.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://banknotes.rba.gov.au/legal/legal-tender/\|title=RBA Banknotes: Legal Tender\|website=banknotes.rba.gov.au\|language=en\|access-date=2018-07-24}}</ref> ==Commemorative issue== Line 52: \| 1996 \|\| [[Henry Parkes\|Sir Henry Parkes]] \|\| 26,200,000 \|- \| 1997 \|\| Birth of [[Charles Kingsford- Smith\|Sir Charles Kingsford- Smith]] \|\| 24,400,000 \|- \| 1999 \|\| [[International Year of Older Persons]] \|\| 29,300,000 Line 78: \| 2011 \|\| [[Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting]] \|\| 9,400,000 \|- \| 2014 -<br />2018 \|\| Centenary of [[Anzac Day\|ANZAC]] 2014-2018 \|\| 21,~~800~~900,000 (2014)<br />1,~~300~~400,000 (2015)<br />12,~~800~~190,000* (2016) 1,900,000 (2017) 2,000,000 (2018) \|- \| 2016 \|\| 50th Anniversary of [[Decimalisation#Australia and New Zealand\|Decimal Currency]] \|\| 560,000 \|- \|2019 ~~\|style="text-align:center; font-size:8pt;" colspan=4 align=center\|"" denotes partial numbers for 2016 - total production to be confirmed~~ \|Australia’s Dollar Discovery - 35 years of the Australian $1 coin. \|1,513,000 (Letter A) 1,512,000 (Letter U) 1,512,000 (Letter S) \|- \| 2020 \|\| Celebrating a 100 years of Qantas \|style="text-align:center; font-size:8pt;" colspan=4 align=center\|References:<ref>{{cite web\|title=One Dollar\|url=https://www.ramint.gov.au/one-dollar\|website=Royal Australian Mint\|accessdate=29 September 2017\|language=en\|date=8 January 2016}}</ref> \|2,000,000 \|- \| 2020 - 2021 \|\| Donation Dollar - the world's first one dollar coin designed to be donated \|\| 12,500,000 (2020) 5,000,000 (2021) \|- \| 2024 \|\| [[Bluey (2018 TV series)]] - Three coins, one of [[Bluey Heeler]], one of the Heeler family, and one of Bluey and [[Bingo Heeler]] dressed as old women/grannies \|\| \|- \| colspan="3" style="text-align:center; font-size:8pt;" align="center" \|References:<ref name="ramint1"/> \|} Line 103 ⟶ 120: [https://web.archive.org/web/20121227093532/http://www.australianstamp.com/coin-web/aust/decimal.htm Australian Decimal Currency] * [http://www.australian-threepence.com/blog/2009/11/the-complete-guide-to-australian-one-dollar-coins.html The Australian Dollar Coin] * [http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/coins/australia/ Australian Coins: Type Collecting] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608021226/http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/coins/australia/ \|date=8 June 2011 }} * [http://www.coinpage.com/Australia-coin-pictures.html Pictures of Australian Coins] * [https://onlinecoin.club/Coins/CoinType/Australia/One_Dollar/ Coins from Australia / Coin Type: One Dollar - Online Coin Club]