Two dollar coin (Australian)

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2 Dollar piece (Australia)
Value:	2.00 AUD
Mass:	6.60 g
Diameter:	20.50 mm
Thickness:	3.20 mm
Edge:	interrupted milled
Composition:	92%Copper, 6%Aluminium, 2%Nickel
Years of Minting:	1988–present
Catalog Number:	-
Obverse

Design:	Queen Elizabeth II, Australia's Queen
Designer:	Raphael Maklouf
Design Date:	1984
Reverse

Design:	One pound Jimmy
Designer:	Horst Hahne
Design Date:	1987

The Australian 2 dollar coin was issued to replace the Two dollar note in 1988, the image of the Aboriginal Elder, One pound Jimmy by Artist Ainslie Roberts with the Southern Cross and grass tree (Xanthorrhoea). Issued all years except 2001 with an average mintage of 20 million coins based on total mintage except 1988 as there were 160.7 million coins issued in that year. There are no commemoratives for this issue only the standard design. When the coin was introduced there were complaints from the populace as the coin was too small for its value and was easily lost or counterfeited by placing two 5cent pieces together and colouring them gold. But with an uninterrupted milling on the 5 cent and the 2 dollars having 5 groves in 4 lots separated by 7mm length of the side identification is easy. Same size and milling as the 10 Swedish kronor.