Currency Determination No. 7 of 1996 (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Currency Act 1965

Currency Determination No. 7 of 1996

I, CHARLES RODERICK KEMP, Assistant Treasurer, acting for the Treasurer, make the following Determination under subsection 13A (1) of the Currency Act 1965.

Dated 1996.

Assistant Treasurer

Citation 1. This Determination may be cited as Currency Determination No. 7 of 1996.

Commencement 2. This Determination commences on 1 January 1997.

Specifications of certain coins

3. (1) This Determination specifies, in relation to certain coins having the denominations and standard compositions specified in columns 1 and 2 of Part 1 of the Schedule, the standard weights, the allowable variations from those standard weights, the dimensions and the designs respectively set out in columns 3, 4 and 5 of that Part.

(2) A reference in the Schedule to the diameter of a coin is, in relation to a coin that is not circular, a reference to the distance between 2 parallel faces of the edge of the coin.

Application of Determination

4. This Determination does not affect any other determination of the specifications of a coin.

SCHEDULE Clause 3

PART 1—SPECIFICATIONS OF COINS

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Denomination Standard composition Standard weight and allowable variation (g) Dimensions— Design— (1) (2) (1) (2) (3) (4) Diameter Thickness Shape Edge Obverse Reverse (mm) (mm) $1 Copper, aluminium and nickel 9.00 ± 0.28 25.12 2.80 S1 E3 O2 R24 R25 Not less than 99.9% silver 11.49 ± 0.23 25.12 2.80 S1 E3 O2 R26 31.635+0.50 40.60 4.00 S1 E1 O2 R27 R28 $5 Austenitic stainless steel, copper, aluminium and nickel 10.60 ± 0.50 27.88 2.60 S2 E4 O2 R29 $10 Not less man 99.9% silver 20.77 ± 0.50 34.10 2.90 S1 E4 O2 R30 R31