1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Ocean Series - White Shark

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.