1 Dollar - Charles III 1st Portrait - XP Falcon 1965

This release commemorates the 60th anniversary of the decimal dollar introduced on 14 February 1966, when Australia abandoned pounds, shillings, and pence in one of the most logistically complex currency changeovers the Commonwealth had attempted. The XP Falcon — launched the same year — became an unlikely symbol of that transitional moment, a domestically produced car for a newly decimal nation. The Royal Australian Mint has used that cultural coincidence as the hook for a collector issue bearing Charles III's first portrait for Australian coinage.