Australia will see a major change to its dollar coin this year, but only those with a keen eye will catch it. <\/p>\n
The iconic design, featuring five kangaroos, will be updated to include a sixth, the first change since 1984. <\/p>\n
The new design, called \u2018Mob of Six Roos\u2019 was created to celebrate six decades of decimal currency \u2013 or dollars and cents \u2013 in Australia.<\/p>\n
The coin is already in circulation, but will be limited edition, with the image to revert to five kangaroos in 2027. <\/p>\n
Royal Australian Mint Chief Executive Officer Emily Martin said while the change was subtle in appearance, it was significant. <\/p>\n
\u201cMost people might not notice the change straight away, and that\u2019s part of the fun. When you find one, you\u2019ll know you\u2019re holding a piece of our shared history,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first time since the $1 coin\u2019s introduction in 1984 that we\u2019ve made a change to its iconic design. It\u2019s a moment that connects past and present \u2014 celebrating not just our coins, but the creativity and craftsmanship behind them.<\/p>\n
\u201dIt\u2019s a subtle change, and we encourage everyone to check their change to see if they can find one of these anniversary coins.\u201d
While Australia switched to dollars and cents in 1966, the dollar coin was not brought into circulation until 1984. <\/p>\n
It was a replacement for the dollar note, which had a short circulation life because of its high use. <\/p>\n
Stuart Devlin, who also designed the 1, 2, 5, 20 and 50 cent coins, was commissioned to put together a design, and his \u2018Mob of Roos\u2019 image has remained on the front of the dollar ever since. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia will see a major change to its dollar coin this year, but only those with a keen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,187436],"class_list":["post-509818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-newswire-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}