Currency (Perth Mint) Determination 2001 (No. 3) (Cth)

Currency (Perth Mint) Determination 2001 (No. 3)

I, IAN GORDON CAMPBELL, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, make this Determination under subsection 13A (1) of the Currency Act 1965.

Dated 10 December 2001

IAN CAMPBELL

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer

Contents

Page

1  Name of Determination   2

2  Commencement   2

3  Specification of a $30 coin   2

4  Application of Determination   2

Schedule 13

Part 1                    Specifications of coin   3

Part 2                    Explanation of symbols   3

1. Name of Determination

This Determination is the Currency (Perth Mint) Determination 2001 (No. 3).

1. Commencement

This Determination commences on gazettal.

1. Specification of a $30 coin

This Determination specifies, for a coin having the denomination and standard composition specified in columns 2 and 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 1, the standard weight, the allowable variation from that weight, the dimensions and the design specified in columns 4, 5 and 6 of that Part.

1. Application of Determination

The specifications in this Determination do not affect any other Determination of the specifications of a coin.

Schedule 1             

(section 3)

Part 1          Specifications of coin

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5		Column 6
Item	Denomination (and, where relevant, nominal weight)	Standard composition	Standard weight and allowable variation (g)	Dimensions		Design
				(1) Diameter (mm)	(2) Thickness (mm)	(1) Shape	(2) Edge	(3) Obverse	(4) Reverse
101	$30 (1 kg)	Not less than 99.9% silver (except for the gold cameo mentioned in column 4 of item 204 in Part 2  of this Schedule)	1002.502 ± 1.500	101.00	14.60	S1	E1	O1	R271

Part 2          Explanation of symbols

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Item	Design feature	Symbol	Explanation
201	Shape	S1	Circular
202	Edge	E1	Milled
203	Obverse	O1	A circle of raised beads immediately inside the rim, enclosing:      (a)   the inscriptions:             (i)   ‘ELIZABETH II’; and            (ii)   ‘AUSTRALIA’; and     (b)   an inscription stating, in Arabic numerals, the amount in dollars of the denomination of the coin, followed by the word ‘DOLLAR’ or ‘DOLLARS’, as the case requires; which, in turn, surround an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II.
204	Reverse	R271	A circle of raised beads immediately inside the rim, enclosing the inscriptions:      (a)   ‘THE AUSTRALIAN KOOKABURRA 1 KILO 999 SILVER’; and     (b)   ‘2001’; which, in turn, surround:      (c)   a representation of 2 kookaburras sitting back to back on a branch of a tree; and     (d)   a representation, in gold cameo, of a baby in a sling which is suspended from the beak of one of the kookaburras.