1984-1992 Royal Australian Mint - UNC $1 Five Coin Set

Description

Please Note: These are secondhand collectables and may have cosmetic damages such as (but not limited to) scuffs to the card or capsule, creases, age or rust spotting to the packaging or fraying corners and edges. 

Features

• Includes all commemorative $1 coins from 1984 to 1992
• Information in the front cover of the folder to educate the reader about each included coin

Details 

The Royal Australian Mint was proud to release, for the first time, all variations of Australia's one dollar coin designs in this special uncirculated coin set. One dollar coins were intoduced into circulation in 1984, following a decision by the Australian government to withdraw the one dollar note from circulation.

The coins included in this set are:

1984: The 1984 one dollar coin, although issued for circulation, and packaged as individual collectors items, were not included in the Mint's annual year sets that year. In keeping with the Australian fauna designs on existing on decimal coins, Stuart Devlin designed the reverse which features five kangaroos. The obverse carries the original Arnold Machin portrait of QEII.

1985: Following a decision by Buckingham Palace to update the Queen's portrait in 1985, a new obverse effigy was designed by London-based artist Raphael Maklouf. Maklouf's coin design, which has been used on all Australian coins since 1985, was selected from a field of seventeen British and Commonwealth artists who were invited to submit portrait models. The 1985 coin carries the standard Stuart Devlin reverse design.

1986: In recognition of the International Year of Peace in 1986, the Royal Australian Mint struck Australia's first commemorative one dollar coin. The coin reverse, featuring the symbolic dove of peace, was designed by the Mint's Chief Engraver, Horst Hahne.

1988: Australia's second commemorative one dollar coin was minted for the country's Bicentennial celebrations in 1988. The coin's reverse, designed by Stuart Devlin, features a styalised kangaroo design in an Aboriginal style, in recognition of Australia's Aboriginal culture and heritage.

1992: The 1992 one dollar coin commemorates the 25th Olympiad in the the Spanish city of Barcelona and also honours the achievements of Autralia's sporting women. The javelin thrower on the coin's reverse is the first woman other than the Queen and the Princess of Wales to appear on an Australian coin. Designed by Perth artist Margaret Priest, the coin was modelled by Mint engraver, Wojciech Pietranik.

Specifications

• Denomination: $1
• Weight: 9.00g
• Metal Content: AlBr
• Diameter: 25.00mm
• Packaging: The 5 coins in this set are housed in a thick and colourful cardboard folder, with illustrations of the featured coins on the front, dates of the coins on the back cover. This set also comes with the original plastic slip.