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Australia's first commemorative $2 coin was released in 2012 to commemorate Remembrance Day. It features a poppy in the centre on a background of microtext, reading: "remembrance day" and "lest we forget". [1] As Canada also has coloured circulating coins, Australia is now the second country to do so. [2]
Authorized under an act by the United States Congress, the first two-dollar bill was issued in March 1862 [5] and the denomination was continuously used until 1966; by that time, the United States Note was the only remaining class of U.S. currency to which the two-dollar bill was assigned.
The Australian two-dollar coin is the highest-denomination circulating coin of the Australian dollar. It was first issued on 20 June 1988, having been in planning since the mid-1970s.
This page deals with commemorative coins issued by the Mint for general circulation, in the normal denominations of Canadian coins: two dollar; one dollar; fifty cent; twenty-five cent; ten cents; five cents; and one cent (now discontinued). They are available from the Mint and commercial banks at their normal face value.
Commemorative editions of the Canadian $2 coin Year Theme Artist Mintage Notes 1999 The founding of Nunavut: G. Arnaktavyok 25,130,000 The coin features an Inuit drummer. 2000 Knowledge/ Le Savoir: Tony Bianco 29,880,000 [24] Millennium edition, the coin value "2 dollars" appears on the obverse instead of on the reverse. It also features three ...
The Elgin, Illinois, Centennial half dollar was a fifty-cent commemorative coin issued by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1936, part of the wave of commemoratives authorized by Congress and struck that year.
The term "Educational" is derived from the title of the vignette on the $1 note, History Instructing Youth. [5] Each note includes an allegorical scene on the observe and a pair of portraits on the reverse.
The coins of the New Zealand dollar are used for the smallest physical currency available in New Zealand. The current denominations are ten cents, twenty cents, fifty cents, one dollar and two dollars. The $1 and $2 coins are minted in a gold colour, the 20c and 50c coins are silver colour and the 10c coin is plated in copper. Larger denominations of the New Zealand dollar are minted as ...