Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Ocean Series - White Shark
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
|---|---|
| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The central field of the reverse is entirely covered by a pad-printed polychrome design depicting a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) swimming laterally across a vivid blue underwater scene, rendered in naturalistic dark grey and white tones with light rays radiating downward from the surface above. The denomination numeral '1' appears in large raised gold-coloured type at the upper left, integrated with the word 'DOLLAR' in bold serif lettering spanning the upper portion of the design, both elements standing proud of the coloured background. The overall composition evokes an underwater perspective looking upward toward the ocean surface, consistent with the theme of the Ocean Series. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 1 DOLLAR |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Ocean Series marked one of the Royal Australian Mint's early sustained experiments with pad printing — a technique borrowed from industrial manufacturing that allowed polychrome surface detail impossible through conventional die work alone. The white shark dollar was issued the same year Australia's white pointer population remained listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, a status that had been hard-won after decades in which the species was commercially targeted for its jaws and fins with no federal protection whatsoever.