Who Wants To Guess What The "Australian Public" Will Receive

Crap and more Crap.

Can't help but wonder when the video shows drums (ie for circulation) and then the play on words with "Colourful Change is Coming" with the preceding "A" flickering out - I'm inclined to think they may actually do it this time...

Coloured circulation coins?

I'll believe it when I see it. Why let people get them for face value when you can charge $10 each for NCLT?

Why not, The Canadians did it

We've had them since 2004 (apparently a world first?), but only on quarters. They don't get any more complex then combinations of two colours on a white background, but we get them pretty regularly.

First was the 2004 Remembrance Day, which rubbed down pretty quickly (even when I was a kid in 2004, those quarters were wearing down to white). Then they introduced the 2006 Breast Cancer, which had the same problem. In 2008 they mostly reused the 2004 design for the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day, but these held their colour much better. Then we had Olympic mania for the four years preceding 2010 and a few Olympics coins were released with colour and without - coloured ones are harder to find thanks to hoarders, but there's not much of a difference (although there will be if enough people keep them and forget). The 2011 series was about Canadian conservation, so there was a set of three quarters (coloured and non-coloured, making six to collect) with endangered species that managed to rebound. Most recently, there were four colourized issues (and four non-colourized featuring a heavily frosted finish) celebrating the War of 1812 bicentennial. You get pretty jaded to all these commemoratives after a while, but I still enjoy the colourized ones.

There was also an embarrassing story where an American diplomat got a 2004 quarter in his change when they just came out, forgot about it, and then blamed our government for slipping a "spy coin" into his purse when he eventually found it. You see, the colourized poppy has a grid of dents over it to hold the colour, which look like a microphone if you're an idiot.

$2 I'm pretty sure. That's what I read in a currency determination that someone else posted on another forum. Celebraing the 60th anniversary of the coronation. It will have purple ribbons on it I think.

Really! I have to wait 13 hours to see what the new coin is

2013 $2 Copper Aluminium and Nickel Colour Printed Coin â€" 60th Anniversary of the Queen's Coronation
A central circle enclosing a stylised representation of St Edward's Crown. Surrounding the central circle there is a pattern of purple coloured stripes superimposed on 3 concentric circles. The design includes the inscriptions ‘EIIR CORONATION', ‘60 YEARS' and ‘TWO DOLLARS' as well as three representations of a dot.