Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2000 (No. 2) (Cth)

Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2000 (No. 2)

I, JOE HOCKEY, Minister for Financial Services and Regulation, make this Determination under subsection 13A (1) of the Currency Act 1965.

Dated 1 February 2000

JOE HOCKEY

Minister for Financial Services and Regulation

Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2000 (No. 2)

made under the

Currency Act 1965

Contents

Page

1  Name of Determination   2

2  Commencement   2

3  Specification of coins   2

4  Application of Determination   2

5  Amendment of Currency Determination 1999 (No. 5)              2

Schedule 13

Part 1             Specification of coins   3

Part 2             Explanation of symbols   3

Schedule 2       Amendments of Currency Determination 1999 (No. 5)4

1. Name of Determination

This Determination is Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2000 (No. 2).

1. Commencement

This Determination commences on gazettal.

1. Specification of coins

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

This Determination does not affect any other Determination of the specifications of a coin.

1. Amendment of Currency Determination 1999 (No. 5)¹

Schedule 2 amends Currency Determination 1999 (No. 5).

Schedule 1             

(section 3)

Part 1   Specification of coins

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5		Column 6
Item	Denomination	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	50 cents	Not less than 99.9% silver	18.24 ± 0.400	31.65	2.80	S3	E4	O20	R228
102	50 cents	Copper and nickel	15.55 ± 0.400	31.65	2.80	S3	E4	O20	R228

Part 2   Explanation of symbols

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Item	Design Feature	Symbol	Explanation
201	Shape	S3	Dodecahedral
202	Edge	E4	Plain
203	Obverse	O20	An effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, and the monogram ‘G’, surrounded by the inscriptions: (a)      ‘ELIZABETH II’; and (b)      ‘AUSTRALIA 2000’.
204	Reverse	R228	A representation of the Australian flag flying from the mast head of new Parliament House, Canberra, above: (a)      the inscriptions:              (i)      ‘50’; and             (ii)      ‘ROYAL VISIT’; and            (iii)      ‘2000’; and (b)      a representation of St Edward’s Crown.

Schedule 2        Amendments of Currency Determination 1999 (No. 5)

(section 5)

[1]         Schedule 1, item 233

omit

1797 two penny Britannia copper coin,

insert

1797 Britannia copper coin,

[2]         Schedule 1, item 233, paragraph (c)

substitute

(c)    ‘The Cartwheel Penny’.

Note

1.       Made by the Minister for Financial Services and Regulation on 28 September 1999, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 13 October 1999.