1 Dollar Swan Pattern Dollar; Chinese Counterfeit

The Swan Pattern Dollar of 1967 was a proposed Australian decimal coin that never entered circulation — the design was rejected in favor of what became the standard issue. Chinese counterfeit copies, almost certainly produced for the tourist and novelty trade rather than deceptive circulation, began appearing in quantity decades later and are now common enough that examples surface regularly at general auction. The giveaway is almost always the weight tolerance, which drifts noticeably from the original specification.