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What Is A Commemorative Coin Fact Sheet

Commemorative coins celebrate important people, events, anniversaries, or organizations that are recognized as playing a significant role in Australia's national story. Not every person or event can be commemorated, so the Royal Australian Mint considers whether the subject impacted the entire country, rather than just a local area or family. People, events, and organizations that have been commemorated include prominent Australians like Donald Bradman, royal family members, anniversaries of women's suffrage and World War II, and nationally recognized groups like the United Nations, Scouts, and Landcare. Religions and political parties are not commemorated due to the diversity of views among Australians.

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What Is A Commemorative Coin Fact Sheet

Commemorative coins celebrate important people, events, anniversaries, or organizations that are recognized as playing a significant role in Australia's national story. Not every person or event can be commemorated, so the Royal Australian Mint considers whether the subject impacted the entire country, rather than just a local area or family. People, events, and organizations that have been commemorated include prominent Australians like Donald Bradman, royal family members, anniversaries of women's suffrage and World War II, and nationally recognized groups like the United Nations, Scouts, and Landcare. Religions and political parties are not commemorated due to the diversity of views among Australians.

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What is a commemorative coin?

Every Australian coin helps to tell a small piece of our nation’s story. The
animals you see on our coins were not just chosen randomly. They are
unique Australian creatures, showing that we are proud of what makes us
special. The person pictured on the two dollar coin is an Aboriginal elder,
showing that we acknowledge those who have been living on our land for
many generations.
Sometimes you might gaze at a coin and think that it looks a bit
different from an everyday coin. It might be a commemorative coin.
Commemorative coins celebrate events, anniversaries or people who are Current two dollar coin
such a special part of the nation’s story that they are shown on a coin in
place of the standard picture.

How is the subject for a commemorative coin decided?


Not every person or event can be commemorated on a coin, so how do we (at the Royal Australian
Mint) decide what will be commemorated?
Let’s consider some possibilities…
•  an we make a coin to celebrate your grandmother’s birthday? No!
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People who are commemorated on coins must be recognised as an important part of the entire
nation’s story, not just your family’s story.
People such as Donald Bradman, Captain Cook, Bass and Flinders, and members of the Royal
family have been commemorated on Australian coins.
•  an we make a coin to celebrate the 25th anniversary of your local fish and chip shop? No!
C
Events that are commemorated must impact upon the entire country, not just a local area.
Events such royal weddings or jubilees, the centenary of women’s suffrage (having the right to
vote), the International Year of Volunteers, the centenary of Canberra, and the 50th and 60th
anniversaries of the end of World War II have been commemorated on
Australian coins.
•  an we make a coin to celebrate the Australian Woodchoppers
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Association? No!
There is nothing wrong with the Australian Woodchoppers Association,
but to appear on a commemorative coin, organisations must be important
to a much bigger section of our population.
Organisations such as the United Nations, Landcare, Scouts, Guides,
and the Australian Institution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies (AIATIS) have been commemorated on Australian coins. Centenary of
Scouting 2008

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•  an we make a coin to celebrate a religion or a political party? No!
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Different people have different religions, and different people vote for different parties. It wouldn’t
be fair to celebrate one over the other.
The Royal Australian Mint also makes collectible coins to buy (known as uncirculated coins), and
these have celebrated a whole range of things that are special to Australians.

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