The Stag Beetle dollar is part of the Royal Australian Mint's 2014 Bright Bugs series, which used pad printing — a technique borrowed from industrial manufacturing — to apply colour directly onto coin surfaces without capsules or inserts. The RAM had been refining this process for several years before committing it to a circulating commemorative issue, and the results here are among the cleaner early applications of the method on Australian coinage.
The stag beetle itself is not native to Australia; its inclusion likely reflects the series' broader entomological scope rather than endemic fauna.
The Stag Beetle dollar is part of the Royal Australian Mint's 2014 Bright Bugs series, which used pad printing — a technique borrowed from industrial manufacturing — to apply colour directly onto coin surfaces without capsules or inserts. The RAM had been refining this process for several years before committing it to a circulating commemorative issue, and the results here are among the cleaner early applications of the method on Australian coinage.
The stag beetle itself is not native to Australia; its inclusion likely reflects the series' broader entomological scope rather than endemic fauna.