{"id":894924,"date":"2026-09-17T04:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894924\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T04:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:56:28","slug":"australia-to-issue-bluey-cricket-collector-coin-abc-news-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894924\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to issue Bluey cricket collector coin \u2014 ABC News Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Australian Mint has unveiled a $1 collector coin based on an episode of the children\u2019s animated series Bluey about backyard cricket. As <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-09-17\/mint-new-bluey-collector-cricket-coin\/107162394\">ABC News Australia reports<\/a>, 200,000 such coins will be minted, but they will not enter cash circulation.<\/p>\n<p>Characters from the Cricket episode<\/p>\n<p>The coloured coin depicts the character Rusty hitting a ball with a cricket bat, while Bluey cheers in the background. The release is dedicated to the third-season Bluey episode titled Cricket.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Rusty\u2019s father, who is serving in the military, writes a letter to his son. He advises the boy not to back down in the face of difficulties, to keep his eye on the ball and to look after his younger sister.<\/p>\n<p>More current news is available on the UA.News Telegram channel <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/uanewsstream\">Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A new release for collectors<\/p>\n<p>Mint chief executive Emily Martin said the idea behind the new coin combines Australians\u2019 love of cricket with the popularity of the Bluey animated series. According to her, the coloured coin is dedicated to friendship, teamwork and memories of playing together.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the Mint\u2019s first collector release featuring Bluey characters. In 2024, it presented three coloured coins: with Bluey, the Heeler family, and Bingo and Bluey dressed as characters from The Grannies.<\/p>\n<p id=\"read-us-text\" class=\"read-us-text\">\n        Read us on <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/uanewsstream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/me.sendsmessenger.co\/ua_news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sends<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Download our app<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/ua-news\/id6478152508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-modal\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cabinet.ua.news\/assets-front\/images\/apple-store-app.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.uanews.app&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-modal\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cabinet.ua.news\/assets-front\/images\/google-store-app.svg\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                            <a class=\"display-sm no-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/ua.news\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#395b40794c5817575c4e4a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                                        <\/a><br \/>\n                                                                                                                                                <a class=\"display-sm no-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/ua.news\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#0163784174602f6f647672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                                        <\/a><br \/>\n                                                                                                                                                <a class=\"display-sm no-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/ua.news\/ua\/money\/dopomozhy-proyektu-ua-news-kryptodonatom\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"&#010;                                    max-width: 90%; margin:0 auto;&#010;                                \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789620988_760_usdt-uanews.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Australian Mint has unveiled a $1 collector coin based on an episode of the children\u2019s animated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-894924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894924","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=894924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}