Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2003 (No. 5) (Cth)

Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2003 (No. 5)

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

Dated 29 July 2003

IAN CAMPBELL

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer

Contents

1Name of Determination   2

2Commencement   2

3Specification of coins   2

4Application of Determination   2

Schedule 1             3

Part 1Specifications of coins   3

Part 2Explanation of symbols   3

1. Name of Determination

This Determination is the Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2003 (No. 5).

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

The specifications in Schedule 1 to this Determination do not affect any other Determination of the specification of a coin.

Schedule 1           

(section 3)

Part 1          Specifications 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	$5	Not less than 99.9% silver	36.31 ± 0.64	38.90	3.50	S1	E1	O38	R322
102	$10	Not less than 99.9% silver with a central ring of silver, plated with gold of not less than 99.99%	60.50 ± 0.80	50.10	3.80	S1	E1	O39	R323

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	Continuously milled
203	Obverse	O38	An effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, and the monogram ‘IRB’, surrounded by the inscriptions:      (a)   ‘ELIZABETH II’; and     (b)   ‘AUSTRALIA 2003’; and      (c)   ‘FIVE DOLLARS’.
204	Obverse	O39	A design consisting of a circle of raised beads, immediately inside the rim, surrounding:      (a)   the inscriptions:             (i)   ‘ELIZABETH II’; and            (ii)   ‘AUSTRALIA 2003’; and     (b)   an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the monogram ‘IRB’; that, in turn, surround a wreath of wattle leaves underneath a gold-plated representation of the obverse of the 1853 Sydney Mint sovereign pattern coin, comprising an effigy of Queen Victoria surrounded by the inscriptions:      (c)   ‘VICTORIA’; and     (d)   ‘D:G:’; and      (e)   ‘BRITANNIAR:’; and      (f)   ‘REGINA’; and      (g)   ‘F:D:’; and     (h)   ‘1853’.
205	Reverse	R322	A design consisting of a holographic representation of the faces of three Australians that, on changing the angle of viewing, turns into a representation, in colour, of volunteer-associated equipment or images, being a hard hat, fire hose, flames, SES tape, red cross, a twig of the Wollemi pine, a figure cradling a child and a life saving flag, surrounded by a representation of a struck design of an interlocking jigsaw, surrounded by the inscriptions:      (a)   ‘AUSTRALIA’S VOLUNTEERS’; and     (b)   ‘MAKING A DIFFERENCE’.
206	Reverse	R323	A design comprising:      (a)   a wreath of wattle leaves tied with a ribbon; and     (b)   the inscription ‘1853 SYDNEY 2003’; surrounding the inscriptions:      (c)   ‘MINT PATTERN’; and     (d)   ‘TEN DOLLARS’; that, in turn, surround a gold plated representation of the reverse of the Sydney Mint pattern sovereign coin, comprising a circle of raised beads, immediately inside the rim, surrounding the inscriptions:      (e)   ‘SYDNEY MINT’; and      (f)   ‘ONE SOVEREIGN’; that, in turn, surround a wreath of wattle leaves tied with a ribbon, surmounted by a crown, that in turn surrounds the inscription ‘AUSTRALIA’.