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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

PART 2—EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS
1. Shape:
S1 = circular.
S2 = regular 24-sided polygon.

2. Edge:
E1 = milled.
E3 = 14 segments, of which 7 are milled and 7 are plain.
E4 = plain.

[NOTE: E2 is referred to in Currency Determination No. 6 of 1996.]
SCHEDULE—continued

3. Obverse:
O2 = an effigy of the Queen, surrounded by the inscriptions:
     (a) "ELIZABETH H"; and
     (b) "AUSTRALIA"; and
     (c) "1997".

[NOTE: O1 is referred to in Currency Determination No. 6 of 1996.]

4. Reverse:
R24 = an effigy of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith superimposed on a representation of an aeroplane bearing the inscriptions "USU" and "Southern Cross", which, in turn, is superimposed on a representation of a flight path, surrounded by:
     (a) the monogram "WP"; and
     (b) the inscriptions:
       (i) "SIR CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH"; and
       (ii) "1897-1935"; and
       (iii) "1 DOLLAR"; and
       (iv) "C", "S", "M", "B" or "A".

R25 = an effigy of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, surrounded by:
     (a) the