Canberra Centenary Coins Announced

poisonivy said :

Why 20c? Why not $1 (=100c)?

20c seems a paltry amount for a commemorative coin. Perhaps someone from the Mint can weigh in with a reason?

That’s why they made the $5 silver coin.

Commemorative coins for Canberra’s Centenary – ok all well and good but NZ is minting commemorative coins for Dr Who’s 50th! now that’s an anniversary worth minting coins over!

http://www.3news.co.nz/NZ-coin-to-mark-Doctor-Who-milestone/tabid/423/articleID/284365/Default.aspx

So the design commemorates WBG’s plan for Canberra… the plan that wasn’t followed. Seems about right.

poetix said :

…looks like some mysterious steam punk mechanism, the use of which is not immediately apparent…and which has now ceased to function, anyway.

Why do I feel like I’m back in the Great Underground Empire waiting for a Grue to attack.

Why 20c? Why not $1 (=100c)?

20c seems a paltry amount for a commemorative coin. Perhaps someone from the Mint can weigh in with a reason?

poetix said :

The graphic design on the 20 cent coin looks like some mysterious steam punk mechanism, the use of which is not immediately apparent…and which has now ceased to function, anyway.

Some enormous cog that has been nibbled through by mice, over a period of a hundred years or so. Aussiemandias.

Steampunk, damned iPad. YOU SHOULD KNOW.

The graphic design on the 20 cent coin looks like some mysterious steam punk mechanism, the use of which is not immediately apparent…and which has now ceased to function, anyway.

Some enormous cog that has been nibbled through by mice, over a period of a hundred years or so. Aussiemandias.

F&&& me, the centenary of Australia’s capital city is worth two bob?