1 Dollar piece (Australia)
Value:	1.00 AUD
Mass:	9.00 g
Diameter:	25.00 mm
Thickness:	3.00 mm
Edge:	interrupted milled 0.25 mm
Composition:	92%Copper, 6%Aluminium, 2%Nickel
Years of Minting:	1984–present
Catalog Number:	-
Obverse
Design:	Queen Elizabeth II, Australia's Queen
Designer:	Raphael Maklouf
Design Date:	1984
Reverse
Design:	5 Kangaroos
Designer:	Stuart Devlin
Design Date:	1983

The Australian 1 dollar coin was first issued in 1984 to replace the 1 dollar note then in circulation, this coin seems to be the most circulated denomination in Australia. All three portraits of the Queen have been minted, the 1984 head of Queen Elizabeth II by Arnold Machin; between 1985 and 1998 the head by Raphael Maklouf; and since 1999 the head by Ian Rank-Broadley. Inscription of AUSTRALIA on the right hand side and ELIZABETH II on the left hand side. ISO 4217 Code AUD User(s) Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island Inflation 4% (Australia only) Source Reserve Bank of Australia, June 2006 Subunit 1/100 cent Symbol $ or AUD Coins 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c , $1, $2 Banknotes $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 Central... BIC pen cap, about 1 gram. ... A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter), symbol mm is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ... General Name, Symbol, Number copper, Cu, 29 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 4, d Appearance metallic pinkish red Atomic mass 63. ... General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13, 3, p Appearance silvery Atomic mass 26. ... General Name, Symbol, Number nickel, Ni, 28 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 10, 4, d Appearance lustrous, metallic Atomic mass 58. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of 16 sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally, though she is more directly involved with the United Kingdom, where the Royal Family resides, and the Monarchy is historically indigenous. ... Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, in 1952 and 2002 The title Queen of Australia has existed since 1973, when the Parliament of Australia passed the Royal Style and Titles Act (1973). ... Raphael Maklouf (born 10 December 1937) is a sculptor, best known for designing the effigy of Queen Elizabeth used on Commonwealth coinage from 1985 to 1997. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Species Macropus rufus Macropus giganteus Macropus fuliginosus A kangaroo is any of several large macropods (the marsupial family that also includes the wallab DANIEL HAS A MICRO SIZED PENISies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons and the Quokka: 63 species in all). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arnold Machin (30 September 1911 _ 9 March 1999) was a British artist, sculptor, coin and stamp designer. ... Raphael Maklouf (born 10 December 1937) is a sculptor, best known for designing the effigy of Queen Elizabeth used on Commonwealth coinage from 1985 to 1997. ...

Not all years have issues for circulation with 1987,1989,1990,1991,1992 only in mintpacks. Issue 1984, 1985, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2005 and 2006 are the only issue with the Kangaroo portrait. Commemorative coins issued for circulation being:

• 1986: International Year of Peace.
• 1988: Figure with and Koori Kangaroo for 200 years of English colonisation.
• 1993: Landcare Australia.
• 1996: Sir Henry Parkes.
• 1997: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.
• 1999: Year of Older Persons.
• 2001: 2 coin issues
  • 100 years of Federation.
  • International Year of the Volunteer.
• 2002: Year of the Outback.
• 2003: 2 coin issues
  • Centenary of women's suffrage.
  • Australia's Volunteers.
• 2005: The Dancing Man - 60 years since WW2.

Coins issued not for circulation: Koori (also spelled Koorie) is a word which some Indigenous Australians in New South Wales and Victoria use to identify themselves, and has become a well established term to mean Indigenous Australians from south eastern Australia. Many Indigenous Australians dislike the terms Aborigine and Aboriginal because these terms have been... Species Macropus rufus Macropus giganteus Macropus fuliginosus A kangaroo is any of several large macropods (the marsupial family that also includes the wallab DANIEL HAS A MICRO SIZED PENISies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons and the Quokka: 63 species in all). ... Sir Henry Parkes Sir Henry Parkes (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896), Australian politician, is sometimes called the Father of Federation and is at least considered the most prominent among the Australian Founding Fathers. ... Kingsford Smith in his flying gear Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith MC, (February 9, 1897 - November 8, 1935), often called Charles Kingsford-Smith, or by his nickname Smithy, was the best-known early Australian aviator. ... The federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed a federation. ... A tourism sign post Yalgoo, Western Australia The outback is the remote and usually semi-arid interior of Australia, although the term colloquially can cover any lands outside of the main urban areas. ... The dancing man is a famous person who at the end of World War II was seen dancing down a street of sydney. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ...

• 1994: Tenth aniversary of he $1 coin.
• 1995: 80th Aniversery of Gallipoli.

Satellite image of the Gallipoli peninsula and surrounding area Gallipoli, called Gelibolu in modern Turkish, (Greek: Καλλίπολις), is a town in northwestern Turkey. ...

Reference

• (2000) Ian W. Pitt Renniks Australian Coin and Banknote Values, 19th ed., Chippendale, N.S.W.: Renniks Publications. ISBN 0958557446.

Chippendale is a small inner suburb of Sydney, Australia, sandwiched between Broadway to the north and Cleveland Street to the south, and Sydney Central railway station to the east and the University of Sydney to the west. ...