Interesting Australian Coin Release

Available from 8th February from the Royal Australian Mint is this six coin “Change of Monarch” set.

All coins will be dated 2024. Five of them will have different Effigies of Queen Elizabeth II on them as used on Australian coins since 1953.

5 cent will be Mary Gillick 1st portrait

10 cent will be Arnold Machin 2nd portrait

20 cent will be Ralph Makleouf 3rd portrait

50 cent will be 4th Ian Rank-Broadley 4th portrait

$1 will be Jody Clark 6th portrait

Those five coins will all have the 1952-2022 Memorial annotation.

The sixth coin also dated 2024 is the $2 coin which will have the 1st portrait of Charles III by Dan Thorne. 

The Reverse of the coins will have the normal circulating Reverse as follows…

5c - Echidna, 10c Lyrebird, 20c Platypus, 50c Coat of Arms, $1 Mob of Roos, $2 Aboriginal Man.

(PS - The 5th portrait of QEII by Vladimir Gottwald was only used on one circulating coin , a 50c coin in 2000 and has not made it onto this set)

Mike

is the Vladimir Gottwald portrait officially recognised as the 5th portrait? If it were an officially recognised it, they would have put it in the set surely. It reminds me of the Butler release in 2016 on UK coins that was not ever in circulation so was not recognised as one of the official portraits.

Yes it is considered the 5th Portrait on Australian coins. The Jody Clark one was designated the 6th one by the RAM when it was first issued in 2019.

The Vladimir Gottwald one was used on a Circulating 50 cent coin in 2000. It was also used on a $1 mob of roos coin in a set of all six portraits in 2019 called "Effigies Over Time".

Cheers Mike

The Change of Monarch coins have now been added to Numista.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?ct=coin&se=Change+of+Monarch&e=australie

Please have a look.  🧐

Regards Mike