Currency (Perth Mint) Determination (No. 6) 2018 (Cth)

Currency (Perth Mint) Determination (No. 6) 2018

I, Zed Seselja, Assistant Minister for Treasury and Finance, make the following determination.

Dated: 5 December 2018

Zed Seselja

Assistant Minister for Treasury and Finance
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary  1

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4  Definitions................................................................................................................................ 1

5  Specification of denominations and standard compositions...................................................... 1

6  Standard weight, design and dimensions of coins.................................................................... 2

Schedule 1—Standard composition, standard weight, design and dimensions of coins of specified denominations   3

Part 1—Specifications of coins  3

1  Specifications........................................................................................................................... 3

Part 2—Explanation of symbols  5

2  Symbols used in Part 1............................................................................................................. 5

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

This instrument is the Currency (Perth Mint) Determination (No. 6) 2018.

2  Commencement

(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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under the Currency Act 1965.

4  Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Currency Act 1965.

5  Specification of denominations and standard compositions

(1) This section is made for the purposes of paragraph 13(2)(b) of the Act.

(2)  The Act has effect, on and after the day on which this instrument commences, as if:

(a)  there were included in the Schedule to the Act the references to denominations of money specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to this instrument; and

(b)  there were specified in the Schedule to the Act opposite to each such denomination, as the standard composition of coins of that denomination, the standard composition specified for the denomination in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to this instrument.

(3) This section does not affect any other provision of a determination made for the purposes of paragraph 13(2)(b) of the Act.

6  Standard weight, design and dimensions of coins

(1) This section is made for the purposes of subsection 13A(1) of the Act.

(2)  On and after the day on which this instrument commences, each item of the table in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to this instrument specifies the standard weight, the allowable variation from that standard weight, the design and the dimensions of the coin whose denomination and standard composition are specified in that item.

(3)  Each item of the table in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to this instrument explains a symbol used to describe the design of coins specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1.

(4) This section does not affect any other provision of a determination made for the purposes of subsection 13A(1) of the Act.

Schedule 1—Standard composition, standard weight, design and dimensions of coins of specified denominations

Note:       See sections 5 and 6.

Part 1—Specifications of coins

1  Specifications

Each item of the following table specifies the standard composition, the standard weight, the allowable variation from that standard weight, the design and the dimensions of a coin whose denomination and standard composition are specified in that item.

Specifications of coins
Item	Denomination		Standard composition	Standard weight and allowable variation (g)		Maximum diameter or other dimension (mm)	Maximum thickness (mm)	Shape	Edge	Obverse		Reverse
1		$1	At least 99.99% silver		31.607 ± 0.500	40.60	3.21	S1	E1		O1		R1
2		$1	At least 99.99% silver		31.607 ± 0.500	40.60	3.21	S1	E1		O1		R2
3		$25	At least 91.70% gold		8.018 ± 0.030	22.60	1.90	S1	E1		O2		R3
4		$50	At least 91.70% gold		16.032 ± 0.050	28.90	2.30	S1	E1		O2		R4
5		$2,000	(a) in relation to the coin—at least 99.99% gold; and (b) in relation to the attached piece (Chinese dragon) —at least 76.29% gold; 1.4% silver; and 22.2% copper		324.166 ± 0.600	60.60	16.00	S1	E1		O3		R5
6		$30	At least 99.95% platinum		10.419 ± 0.050	25.60	2.00	S1	E1		O4		R6
7		$100	At least 99.99% gold		31.157 ± 0.050	32.60	2.80	S1	E1		O1		R7
8		$1	At least 99.99% silver		31.607 ± 0.500	40.60	3.21	S1	E1		O1		R8
9		$100	At least 99.99% gold		31.157 ± 0.050	32.60	2.80	S1	E1		O1		R9
10		$25	At least 99.99% gold		7.807 ± 0.030	20.60	2.00	S1	E1		O1		R9

Part 2—Explanation of symbols

2  Symbols used in Part 1

Each item of the following table contains an explanation of a symbol used in Part 1 of this Schedule to describe the shape, edge design, obverse design and reverse design of a coin.

Explanation of symbols used in Part 1
Item	Design Feature	Symbol	Explanation
1	Shape	S1	Circular
2	Edge	E1	Continuously milled
3	Obverse	O1	A design consisting of a circle immediately inside the rim that surrounds an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the following: (a) “ELIZABETH II”; (b) “AUSTRALIA”; (c) Arabic numerals for the amount, in dollars, of the denomination of the coin, followed by “DOLLARS” or “DOLLAR” as the case requires; and (d) “JC”.
4	Obverse	O2	A design consisting of a circle immediately inside the rim that surrounds an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the following: (a) “ELIZABETH II”; (b) “2019”; (c) “AUSTRALIA”; (d) Arabic numerals for the amount, in dollars, of the denomination of the coin, followed by “DOLLARS” or “DOLLAR” as the case requires; and (e) “JC”.
5	Obverse	O3	A design consisting of a circle immediately inside the rim that surrounds an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the following: (a) “ELIZABETH II”; (b) “AUSTRALIA”; (c) “2000 DOLLARS”; (d) “2019”; (e) “10oz 9999 GOLD”; and (f) “JC”.
6	Obverse	O4	A design consisting of a circle immediately inside the rim that surrounds an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the following: (a) “ELIZABETH II”; (b) “AUSTRALIA”; (c) “30 DOLLARS”; (d) “2019”; (e) “1/3oz 9995 Pt”; and (f) “JC”.
7	Reverse	R1	A design consisting of a circular border, in the background, a coloured stylised sunset, grass and a tree, in the foreground, partially obscuring the border is a representation of a coloured kookaburra perched on a branch partially submerged in a body of water and the following: (a) “AUSTRALIAN KOOKABURRA”; (b) “2019 1oz 9999 SILVER”; (c) “AH”; and (d) “P”.
8	Reverse	R2	A design consisting of a circular border, in the background, a stylised sunset, grass and a tree, in the foreground, partially obscuring the border is a representation of a kookaburra perched on a branch partially submerged in a body of water, a square reverse of an Australian One Penny coin and the following: (a) “AUSTRALIAN KOOKABURRA”; (b) “2019 1oz 9999 SILVER”; (c) “AH”; and (d) “P”.
9	Reverse	R3	A design consisting of a representation of a laurel wreath, St Edward’s Crown, an oval enclosing 200 and the following: (a) “PERTH MINT”; (b) “AUSTRALIA”; and (c) “SOVEREIGN”.
10	Reverse	R4	A design consisting of a representation of a laurel wreath, St Edward’s Crown, an oval enclosing 200 and the following: (a) “PERTH MINT”; (b) “AUSTRALIA”; and (c) “DOUBLE SOVEREIGN”.
11	Reverse	R5	A design consisting of stylised representations of a pearl, mist and waves in the background and in the foreground a stylised Chinese dragon with an emerald and diamonds inset and the following: (a) “THE JEWELLED DRAGON”; (b) the Chinese language character (龍) pronounced lóng under the Pinyin system and meaning dragon; (c) “IJ”; and (d) “P”.
12	Reverse	R6	A design consisting of a patterned circular border enclosing a representation of 2 humpback whales underwater and the following: (a) “2019 HUMPBACK WHALE”; (b) “AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY”; (c) “NH”; and (d) “P”.
13	Reverse	R7	A design consisting of a circular border enclosing a representation of Stuart Devlin’s depiction of the Welcome Stranger gold nugget as it appeared in The Perth Mint 1986 Australian Nugget 1 ounce gold coin superimposed over radial lines and the following: (a) “AUSTRALIAN NUGGET”; (b) “WELCOME STRANGER 1869”; (c) “2019 1oz 9999 GOLD”; (d) “SD”; (e) “P”; and (f) the micro letter “P”.
14	Reverse	R8	A design consisting of a circular border enclosing a representation of Stuart Devlin’s depiction of the Welcome Stranger gold nugget as it appeared in The Perth Mint 1986 Australian Nugget 1 ounce gold coin superimposed over radial lines and the following: (a) “AUSTRALIAN NUGGET”; (b) “WELCOME STRANGER 1869”; (c) “2019 1oz 9999 SILVER”; (d) “SD”; (e) “P”; and (f) the micro letter “P”.
15	Reverse	R9	A design consisting of a circular border enclosing a representation of Stuart Devlin’s depiction of the Welcome Stranger gold nugget as it appeared in The Perth Mint 1986 Australian Nugget 1 ounce gold coin and the following: (a) “AUSTRALIAN NUGGET”; (b) “WELCOME STRANGER 1869”; (c) “2019 Xoz 9999 GOLD” (where “X” is the nominal weight in ounces of the coin, expressed as a whole number or a common fraction in Arabic numerals); (d) “SD”; and (e) “P”.