Thankyou Royal Australian Mint (***great News***)

Ooh yes, looking forward to Bathurst again this year

It's an amazing place - I photographed it in 1992 (the year of the huge rainstorm that ended the race early), and again in 1998. As a photographer, I could get to such places as the Chase, where they come down at 300kmh, then kink to the right. Through a camera lens they approach SO fast, and I always flinched..!! The climb up the mountain is really steep, too: try walking up it some time.
Believe me, the drivers are as fit as elite athletes, and the concentration required at the race is incredible.

Nice to see a coin commemorating our Great Race.

Hi FNQ, did you get a card pack too with your mint issue :)
I have only scanned half the pack I should probably get back to it.

Bathurst Coin:

Being a resident of Bathurst, living at the foot of Mt Panorama, and being a person who often jogs around it, I wish this coin had more appeal to me, but honestly, it rates a 2/10 on my excitement meter.

Thanks for the posts AC

Hi CoinManTim,
Heres a mock up of the holey dollar and dump,


The currency determination described it as a normal $1 planchet with a holey dollar dump design. But wow it would be super cool if they used a bi metal foreign planchet, like the mistake roo coin.



Currency Determination >>

No.14
2013 Bicentenary of the Holey Dollar and Dump ‘C' Mintmark $1 Copper Aluminium and Nickel Coin

Reverse

A central circle enclosing a circle of raised beads, a representation of a crown and the inscriptions ‘NEW SOUTH WALES' and ‘1813'. Above the crown and to the left is the letter ‘C'. This letter denotes the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra. In the background there is a representation of a ribbon spiralling two pillars, a crown and a shield, all partially covered by the central circle. The design includes a circle of raised beads, immediately inside the outer rim of the coin and a representation of a festoon on the edge of the central circle. The design also includes the inscriptions ‘. HISPAN . ET IND . REX .', ‘.8R.T.H.' and a circle directly above the letter ‘M'.

Obverse

Consistent with all Australian legal tender coinage, an effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will appear on the obverse side of the coin together with the inscriptions ‘ELIZABETH II', ‘AUSTRALIA 2013', ‘. 1 DOLLAR .' and the initials of the designer Ian Rank-Broadley ‘IRB'. The obverse design includes raised beads inside the rim of the coin.

Specifications

14
$1
Standard composition: Copper, aluminium and nickel
Standard weight and allowable variation: (g)9.00 ± 0.28
Maximum diameter (mm):25.12
Maximum thickness (mm):2.80
Shape: Circular
Edge: Interrupted milling

A design consisting of Queen Elizabeth II and the following:
(a) ‘IRB';
(b) ‘ELIZABETH II';
(c) ‘AUSTRALIA 2013';
(d) ‘. 1 DOLLAR .';
all encircled by raised beads inside the rim of the coin

A design consisting of:
(a) a circle of raised beads, immediately inside the outer rim; and
(b) a central circle enclosing the following:
(i) a circle of raised beads;
(ii) a representation of a crown;
(iii) ‘NEW SOUTH WALES';
(iv) ‘1813'; and
(c) in the background and partially covered by the central circle:
(i) a representation of a ribbon spiralling two pillars;
(ii) a representation of a crown;
(iii) a representation of a shield; and
(d) a representation of a festoon; and
(e) the following:
(i) ‘. HISPAN . ET IND . REX .';
(ii) a circle directly above the letter ‘M';
(iii) ‘.8R.T.H.';
(iv) ‘C'


This design will also be made in a silver format too.