Australia's legal tender licensing agreements with entertainment IP holders have produced dozens of circulating commemorative dollars since the 1990s, but the TMNT franchise marks one of the few cases where an American cartoon property — originally conceived as a parody comic by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in 1984 — has made it onto Australian coinage. The Perth Mint handles the striking of Australia's circulating commemorative dollars under a long-standing arrangement with the Royal Australian Mint, which retains issuing authority.
Australia's legal tender licensing agreements with entertainment IP holders have produced dozens of circulating commemorative dollars since the 1990s, but the TMNT franchise marks one of the few cases where an American cartoon property — originally conceived as a parody comic by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in 1984 — has made it onto Australian coinage. The Perth Mint handles the striking of Australia's circulating commemorative dollars under a long-standing arrangement with the Royal Australian Mint, which retains issuing authority.