Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2004 (No. 6)

This Determination is the Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2004 (No. 6).

This Determination commences on the date of its notification in the Gazette.

For subsection 13A (1) of the Currency Act 1965, the item in Schedule 1 specifies:

the denomination of a coin; and

the coin's standard composition; and

the coin's standard weight, and the allowable variation from that weight; and

the coin's dimensions; and

the coin's design.

A reference in Schedule 1 to the diameter of the coin is, for a coin that is not circular, a reference to the distance between two parallel faces of the edge of the coin.

The specifications in Schedule 1 do not affect any other determination of the specifications of a coin.

Schedule 1 Specifications of coin (section 3)

Item 1 50c coin

Denomination 50c

Standard composition Not less than 99.9% silver

Standard weight and allowable variation 18.24g ± 0.4g

Maximum diameter 31.65mm

Maximum thickness 2.80mm

Shape Dodecagonal

Edge Plain

Obverse design An effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, and the monogram 'IRB' surrounded by the inscriptions:

'ELIZABETH II'; and

'AUSTRALIA 2005'.

Reverse design A representation of a drawing of:

a koala holding onto a gum tree; and

a lorikeet with its wings outstretched; and

a wombat; and

the number '50'.