1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Alphabet Collection - Letter W

The Alphabet Collection was a Royal Australian Mint circulation program releasing lettered dollars progressively through standard coin rolls, encouraging the kind of public engagement — and hoarding — that effectively removes coins from active circulation. The "W" dollar, issued across a three-year window, follows a pattern where later letters in a run tend to survive in higher average grades simply because collector awareness accumulates as a series progresses.

Pad printing, used here for color application, remains technically vulnerable to wear in a way that conventional die-struck details are not.