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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - The Great Aussie Coin Hunt - Letter J
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse centres on the uppercase letter J in bold relief positioned in the lower left field, serving as the identifying alphabetic device for this issue in the Great Aussie Coin Hunt series. To the upper right, two stockmen on horseback — a jackaroo and a jillaroo — are depicted in dynamic motion, herding a calf across open country, with a stylised arc of concentric curved lines sweeping across the upper field to evoke the vast Australian outback landscape. The denomination ONE DOLLAR arcs along the lower left rim, while the legend JACKAROO & JILLAROO curves along the right periphery, separated by a raised dot. |
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| Reverse lettering | J ONE DOLLAR • JACKAROO & JILLAROO |
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The Great Aussie Coin Hunt was a circulation campaign designed to drive public engagement with coinage at a time when cash transactions in Australia were declining sharply. The Royal Australian Mint released 26 lettered coins across the country's retail supply chain throughout 2019, each representing a word or concept associated with Australian identity. The program was a deliberate attempt to manufacture the same organic hunt-and-collect behavior that had emerged spontaneously around state quarter programs in the United States decades earlier.
"J" stood for "jackaroo," the itinerant rural station hand whose working culture shaped much of Australia's pastoral mythology.