1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Land Series - Wombat

The Land Series was introduced by the Royal Australian Mint to replace the rotating commemorative dollar program, grouping annual releases around a thematic framework tied to Australian fauna and environment. The wombat issue appeared as broader public interest in native wildlife coinage was peaking, partly driven by the success of earlier animal-themed circulation strikes. Pad printing — the process that deposits the color field onto the coin's surface — was still relatively novel in Australian coinage at this point, and the RAM was among the earliest mints globally to apply it to a circulation-quality dollar.