{"id":"F2015L01423","name":"Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2015 (No. 8)","slug":"currency-royal-australian-mint-determination-2015-no-8","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":154539,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2015L01423-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-04","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Name of determination","content":"#### 1 Name of determination\n\n This determination is the Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2015 (No. 8).","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Authority","content":"#### 3 Authority\n\n This determination is made under paragraph 13(2)(b) and subsection 13A(1) of the Currency Act 1965.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"4","sectionType":"section","heading":"Definitions","content":"#### 4 Definitions\n\n In this determination:\n\n> Act means the Currency Act 1965.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"5","sectionType":"section","heading":"Specification of denominations and standard compositions","content":"#### 5 Specification of denominations and standard compositions\n\n (1) This section is made for paragraph 13(2)(b) of the Act.\n (2) The Act has effect, on and after the day on which this determination commences, as if:\n (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 determination; and\n (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 determination.\n (3) This section does not affect any other determination made for paragraph 13(2)(b) of the Act.","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"6","sectionType":"section","heading":"Standard weight, design and dimension of coins","content":"#### 6 Standard weight, design and dimension of coins\n\n (1) This section is made for subsection 13A(1) of the Act.\n (2) On and after the day when this determination commences, each item of the table in Part 1 of Schedule 1 specifies the standard weight, the allowable variation from that standard weight, the design and the dimensions of a coin whose denomination is specified, or taken to be specified in the Schedule to the Act.\n (3) A reference in Schedule 1 to the maximum diameter or other dimension of a coin is, for a coin that stylised heart shape, a reference to the length and width of the coin.\n\n (4) Each item of the table in Part 2 of Schedule 1 explains a symbol used to describe the design of coins specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1.\n (5) This section does not affect any other determination made under subsection 13A(1) of the Act.","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"Part 1","sectionType":"part","heading":"Specifications of coins","content":"## Part 1—Specifications of coins","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"Part 2","sectionType":"part","heading":"Explanation of symbols","content":"## Part 2—Explanation of symbols","sortOrder":7},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Symbols used in Part 1","content":"#### 2 Symbols used in Part 1\n\n 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.\n\n```html\n

Explanation of symbols used in Part 1

Item

Design Feature

Symbol

Explanation

1

Shape

S1

Circular

2

Shape

S2

Stylised heart shape

3

Edge

E1

Interrupted milling

4

Edge

E2

Plain

5

Edge

E3

Continuously milled

6

Obverse

O1

A design consisting of an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the following:

(a) ‘ELIZABETH II’;

(b) ‘AUSTRALIA’;

(c) the inscription, in numerals, of a year;

(d) ‘IRB’.

7

Obverse

O2

A stylised heart shape design consisting of an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the following:

(a) ‘ELIZABETH II’;

(b) ‘AUSTRALIA’;

(c) the inscription, in numerals, of a year;

(d) Arabic numerals for the amount, in dollars, of the denomination of the coin, followed by ‘DOLLAR’, or ‘DOLLARS’ as the case requires;

(e) ‘IRB’.

8

Obverse

O3

A design consisting of an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the following:

(a) ‘ELIZABETH II’;

(b) ‘AUSTRALIA’;

(c) the inscription, in numerals, of a year;

(d) Arabic numerals for the amount, in dollars, of the denomination of the coin, followed by ‘DOLLAR’, or ‘DOLLARS’ as the case requires;

(e) ‘IRB’;

(f) 2 representations of a dot.

9

Reverse

R1

A design consisting of:

(a) in the centre, a pattern of orange coloured stripes, wherein the stripes are superimposed on 3 concentric circles; and

(b) 8 stylised representations of a bird in flight; and

(c) in the background and partially obscured, the following:

(i) ‘In Flanders’;

(ii) ‘fields the poppi’;

(iii) ‘blow Between the cre’;

(iv) ‘row on row, That mark’;

(v) ‘place, and in the sky The’;

(vi) ‘larks, still bravely singi’;

(vii) ‘fly Scarce’;

(viii) ‘heard amid’;

(ix) ‘the guns’;

(x) ‘below. We’;

(xi) ‘the Dead.’;

(xii) ‘Short day’;

(xiii) ‘ago We li’;

(xiv) ‘felt dawn’;

(xv) ‘saw sunse’;

(xvi) ‘glow, Love’;

(xvii) ‘and were l’;

(xviii) ‘and now we’;

(xix) ‘lie In Flanders fields. Tak’;

(xx) ‘up our quarrel with the’;

(xxi) ‘foe. To you from failing’;

(xxii) ‘hands we throw The th’;

(xxiii) ‘be yours to hold’;

(xxiv) ‘it high. If’; and

(d) in the foreground, the inscription ‘TWO DOLLARS’.

10

Reverse

R2

As for item 9, replacing the reference in paragraph (a) to ‘in the centre, a pattern of orange coloured stripes, wherein the stripes are superimposed on 3 concentric circles’ with ‘in the centre, the letter ‘C’ surrounded by a pattern of orange coloured stripes, wherein the stripes are superimposed on 3 concentric circles’.

11

Reverse

R3

As for item 9, replacing the reference in paragraph (a) to ‘in the centre, a pattern of orange coloured stripes, wherein the stripes are superimposed on 3 concentric circles’ with ‘in the centre, a stylised representation of a poppy flower surrounded by a pattern of orange coloured stripes, wherein the stripes are superimposed on 3 concentric circles’.

12

Reverse

R4

As for item 9, replacing the reference in paragraph (a) to ‘in the centre, a pattern of orange coloured stripes, wherein the stripes are superimposed on 3 concentric circles’ with ‘in the centre, the letter ‘C’ enclosed by a circle and surrounded by a pattern of orange coloured stripes, wherein the stripes are superimposed on 3 concentric circles’.

13

Reverse

R5

A design consisting of:

(a) a representation of a part of the Melbourne Cricket Ground; and

(b) a representation of enthusiastic spectators; and

(c) representations of a flag; and

(d) in the foreground, a representation of 3 Australian Football League players wherein a player is taking a mark, a player is spoiling and a player is roving; and

(e) the following:

(i) ‘1 DOLLAR’;

(ii) ‘AFL FANS’;

(iii) a representation of a dot;

(iv) ‘CUSTODIANS OF THE GAME’.

14

Reverse

R6

A design consisting of:

(a) a representation of a part of the Melbourne Cricket Ground; and

(b) a representation of enthusiastic spectators; and

(c) representations of a flag; and

(d) in the foreground, a representation of 3 Australian Football League players wherein a player is taking a mark, a player is spoiling and a player is roving; and

(e) the letter ‘M’ enclosed by a circle; and

(f) the following:

(i) ‘1 DOLLAR’;

(ii) ‘AFL FANS’;

(iii) a representation of a dot;

(iv) ‘CUSTODIANS OF THE GAME’.

16

Reverse

R8

A design consisting of:

(a) a representation of a National Rugby League player positioned in front of a set of goal posts and taking a kick with his right foot; and

(b) a representation of 2 National Rugby League players wherein a player is running with a ball held in his right hand and a player is tackling; and

(c) in the background, a stylised representation of a rugby ball; and

(d) superimposed on the rugby ball, a stylised representation of the following:

(i) grass;

(ii) a boundary;

(iii) spectators;

(iv) a curved line; and

(e) a circular border, partially obscured by the rugby ball and a player; and

(f) the following:

(i) ‘NRL’;

(ii) a representation of a dot;

(iii) ‘ONE DOLLAR’

(iv) ‘MOMENTS THAT MATTER’.

17

Reverse

R9

A design consisting of:

(a) a representation of a National Rugby League player positioned in front of a set of goal posts and taking a kick with his right foot; and

(b) a representation of 2 National Rugby League players wherein a player is running with a ball held in his right hand and a player is tackling; and

(c) in the background, a stylised representation of a rugby ball; and

(d) superimposed on the rugby ball, a stylised representation of the following:

(i) grass;

(ii) a boundary;

(iii) spectators;

(iv) a curved line;

(v) positioned above the curved line, the letter ‘S’ enclosed by a circle; and

(e) a circular border, partially obscured by the rugby ball and a player; and

(f) the following:

(i) ‘NRL’;

(ii) a representation of a dot;

(iii) ‘ONE DOLLAR’

(iv) ‘MOMENTS THAT MATTER’.

19

Reverse

R11

A design consisting of:

(a) a representation of a ribbon entwined to create an ornamental pattern; and

(b) partially obscured by the ribbon, a representation of the leaves, flowers and branches of a plant; and

(c) the inscription ‘With Love’ in red colour.

20

Reverse

R12

A design consisting of:

(a) in the upper sector, a stylised representation of the following:

(i) Sydney Opera House;

(ii) a part of the Sydney Harbour Bridge;

(iii) a fireworks display; and

(b) in the lower sector, a coloured representation of a body of water, including a coloured, distorted and inverted reflection of the following:

(i) Sydney Opera House;

(ii) a part of the Sydney Harbour Bridge;

(iii) a fireworks display; and

(c) the inscription ‘SYDNEY NEW YEARS EVE’.

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It preserves other determinations (s5(3), s6(5)). Practical effects: the Mint must produce coins to the specified tolerances and follow detailed obverse/reverse design prescriptions (Schedule Part 2), creating manufacturing and compliance obligations for the Mint and its contractors; the authority to make these changes is exercised under s13(2)(b) and s13A(1) of the Act."},"complexity_factors":["Technical manufacturing tolerances: precise weights and allowable variations for each denomination (Schedule Part 1).","Multiple material specifications including base-metal alloys and high-purity silver with optional gold plating (Schedule Part 1).","Extensive symbol cross-references (S1/S2, E1–E3, O1–O3, R1–R12) requiring mapping between short codes and full design descriptions (Schedule Part 2).","Detailed visual and colour design prescriptions (e.g. orange stripes, coloured water, red inscription) that impose non‑standard production processes (Schedule Part 2, R1, R11, R12).","Non-circular shape allowance (stylised heart) with bespoke dimensional rules (s6(3) and Schedule Part 1).","Variety of special-issue and bullion-style coins (different masses, dimensions and inscriptions) increasing administrative and production variety (Schedule Part 1 items for silver and plated coins).","Cross-reference to primary statute powers (Currency Act s 13(2)(b) and s 13A(1)) and preserved interaction with other determinations (s5(3), s6(5)).","Potential interpretive ambiguity in descriptive language for artistic elements, which may require administrative discretion or expert determination during production (Schedule Part 2 descriptions)."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination tells the Royal Australian Mint which coins may be issued and sets exact technical and artistic specifications. 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