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This year the Royal Australian Mint is outdoing themselves with 2007 $1 coins.
Some of these are listed in the Guide and some coins the news of them has just broken.
1. 2007 Mob of Roos (released in the Uncirculated Mint set), This is the standard design of Australian Circulated dollars featuring 5 Kangaroos. The Proof version of this coin is only found in the "baby" Proof set.
2. 2007 Lifesaver Dollar, This design will only be released in the Mints Proof Set showing three lifeguards carring a forth thru low water.
3. 2007 Norman Lindsay Dollar, This design will only be released in the Baby Uncirculated Set and features a portrait of Norman Lindsay and some of his character drawings.
4. 2007 Ashes Dollar, This design is of an ern with the Australian Kangaroo and the English Lion, celebrating 125 years of the "Ashes series" of Cricket games. Australia has just won the series 5 - 0 in very convincing style.
5. 2007 Year of the Pig Dollar, This is the start of a Lunar series of coins this size. Features a pig and chinese characters. My understanding is that it really should be the year of the "wild boar" (a rose by any other name).
6. 2007 Sydney Harbour Bridge Dollar, This is what is called a "mint mark dollar" First released on January first from the RAM (Royal Australian Mint) in Canberra on small "mint your own" presses in the gallery. The mint marks Here are C. The RAM have a portable press which they sometimes take to coin shows. The coins at the shows then have a "S" for Sydney, B for Brisbane, "M" for Melbourne mintmarks. Because demand for these is high the mint also mints coins with these mint marks in Canberra. These coins are made on the larger presses and Australian collectors collect both the Canberra made Mint mark and the coin Show mint marks as there is a slight difference due to the method of minting.
So 4 different mint mark letters and 2 varieties of this design.
7. 2007 Ocean series Dollar, the first will feature a Longfin Banner Fish.
and will be available on the 1st of February. This coin series uses coloured pad printing of the design on the reverse of the coin, very pretty.
8. 2007 Ocean series Dollar, the second in 2007 will feature a Biscuit Star Fish and will also be available on 1st of February.
9. 2007 Ocean series Dollar, #3 to be released later in the year.
10. 2007 Ocean series Dollar, #4 to be released later in the year.
11. 2007 APEC Dollar, (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) the next conference will be held in Sydney. The design is of 3 wavy 7 pointed stars within one another. Soon to be released, and will be a circulating coin.
http://www.downies.com/images/product/am388.jpg12. 2007 Polar Dollar, This coin is being released also on 1st of February and is part of a series with 3 different $5 coins. There is a boat featured on this coin.
These are all Al-Br 25mm coins which I call "Look a Like" coins as they are the same size and material and could pass for circulating currency.
There are also a Silver Dollar the same size and design for The Sydney Harbour Bridge coin, as well as the Year of the Pig.
There is also a 2007 Silver Set of coins to be released in March which will contain a Silver dollar.
In addition to that there is the Larger silver kangaroo dollar in proof, in UNC and a Cu-Ni version.
The Subscription Dollar this year will feature the Johanna Dollar in gold plating on a silver coin.
The above Dollar coins are produced by the Royal Australian Mint.
The
Perth Mint have some more Dollars to collect. They have just released the 2007 Lunar Holey Dollar and Dump (25 c). They also have a different design of the Year of the Pig on a 1oz silver Dollar coin.
The RAM coins usually are more favored by the majority of Australian collectors but there are exceptions.
Posted 01/12/2007 01:11 am
