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

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

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

Dated 12 July 2004

ROSS CAMERON

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer

Contents

1Name of Determination   2

2Commencement   2

3Specification of coin   2

4Application of Determination   2

Schedule 1Specifications of coin   3

1. Name of Determination

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

1. Commencement

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

1. Specification of coin

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

(a)    the denomination of a coin; and

(b)    the coin’s standard composition; and

(c)    the coin’s standard weight, and the allowable variation from that weight; and

(d)    the coin’s dimensions; and

(e)    the coin’s design.

(2)   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.

1. Application of Determination

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:

     (a)   ‘ELIZABETH II’; and

    (b)   ‘AUSTRALIA 2005’.

Reverse design

A representation of a drawing of:

     (a)   a koala holding onto a gum tree; and

    (b)   a lorikeet with its wings outstretched; and

     (c)   a wombat; and

    (d)   the number ‘50’.