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nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Current denomination of Australian currency</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151960987">body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox table{display:table}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox caption{display:table-caption}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><caption class="infobox-title summary">Two Dollars</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight:bold;"><div class="location">Australia</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Value</th><td class="infobox-data">2.00 <a href="/wiki/Australian_dollar" title="Australian dollar">AUD</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Mass</th><td class="infobox-data">6.60 g</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Diameter</th><td class="infobox-data">20.50 mm</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Thickness</th><td class="infobox-data">2.80 mm</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Edge</th><td class="infobox-data">interrupted milled<br />20 notches</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Composition</th><td class="infobox-data">92% copper, 6% aluminium, 2% nickel</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Years of minting</th><td class="infobox-data">1988–present</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Obverse</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Design</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> (1988–2023)<br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">King Charles III</a> (2024–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Designer</th><td class="infobox-data">Various (1988–2023)<br />Dan Thorne (2024–present)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Design date</th><td class="infobox-data">2024</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Reverse</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Australian_$2_Coin.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Australian_%242_Coin.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="125" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="125" data-file-height="125" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Design</th><td class="infobox-data">An <a href="/wiki/Aboriginal_Australian_elder" class="mw-redirect" title="Aboriginal Australian elder">Aboriginal Australian elder</a> (based on <a href="/wiki/Gwoja_Tjungurrayi" class="mw-redirect" title="Gwoja Tjungurrayi">Gwoja Tjungurrayi</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Designer</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Horst_Hahne" title="Horst Hahne">Horst Hahne</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Design date</th><td class="infobox-data">1987</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Australian two-dollar coin</b> 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. It replaced the <a href="/wiki/Australian_two-dollar_note" title="Australian two-dollar note">Australian two-dollar note</a> due to having a longer circulatory life.<sup id="cite_ref-two_dollar_mint_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two_dollar_mint-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The only "mint set only" year was 1991. </p><p>$2 coins are legal tender for amounts not exceeding 10 times the face value of the coin for any payment of a debt.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design">Design</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Australian_two-dollar_coin&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Design"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In accordance with all other Australian coins, the obverse features the portrait of the reigning monarch, who during the lifetime of the coin has primarily been <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a>. From 1988 to 1998 the portrait of her was by <a href="/wiki/Raphael_Maklouf" title="Raphael Maklouf">Raphael Maklouf</a> before being replaced in the following year by one sculpted by <a href="/wiki/Ian_Rank-Broadley" title="Ian Rank-Broadley">Ian Rank-Broadley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 2019, the effigy of Elizabeth II by artist <a href="/wiki/Jody_Clark" title="Jody Clark">Jody Clark</a> has been released into circulation. In 2024, following the death of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> in 2022, coins with a new obverse featuring the portrait of <a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">King Charles III</a> entered general circulation.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Designed by Horst Hahne, the reverse depicts what is meant to be an <a href="/wiki/Archetype" title="Archetype">archetype</a> of an <a href="/wiki/Aboriginal_elder" class="mw-redirect" title="Aboriginal elder">Aboriginal elder</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mintfaq_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mintfaq-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The drawing was based on <a href="/wiki/Ainslie_Roberts" title="Ainslie Roberts">Ainslie Roberts</a>' drawing of <a href="/wiki/Gwoya_Tjungurrayi" title="Gwoya Tjungurrayi">Gwoya Tjungurrayi</a>, also known as "One Pound Jimmy", a <a href="/wiki/Warlpiri_people" title="Warlpiri people">Warlpiri</a>-<a href="/wiki/Anmatyerre" class="mw-redirect" title="Anmatyerre">Anmatyerre</a> man of the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Territory_of_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Territory of Australia">Northern Territory of Australia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-two_dollar_mint_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two_dollar_mint-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tjungarrayi was one of the few survivors of one of the last recognised massacres of <a href="/wiki/Aboriginal_Australian" class="mw-redirect" title="Aboriginal Australian">Aboriginal people</a> by the British – the 1928 <a href="/wiki/Coniston_massacre" title="Coniston massacre">Coniston massacre</a> in what was then the <a href="/wiki/Central_Australia_(territory)" title="Central Australia (territory)"> territory of Central Australia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mintfaq_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mintfaq-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-knowles2023_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-knowles2023-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The design also incorporates the <a href="/wiki/Crux" title="Crux">Southern Cross</a> and native <a href="/wiki/Xanthorrhoea" title="Xanthorrhoea">grasstrees</a>. </p><p>Coins produced in 1988 and 1989 bear the initials of its designer, Horst Hahne, but they were removed from the design from 1990 onwards.<sup id="cite_ref-two_dollar_mint_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two_dollar_mint-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>All two-dollar coins have been struck at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Australian_Mint" title="Royal Australian Mint">Royal Australian Mint</a> in <a href="/wiki/Canberra" title="Canberra">Canberra</a>. 160.9 million coins were minted in the first year of issue. It has been issued in all years since except 1991,<sup id="cite_ref-two_dollar_mint_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two_dollar_mint-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with an average mintage of 22 million coins per annum from 1989 to 2008. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Australian_$2_Coin_2012_Remembrance.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/87/Australian_%242_Coin_2012_Remembrance.jpg/250px-Australian_%242_Coin_2012_Remembrance.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/Australian_%242_Coin_2012_Remembrance.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="333" /></a><figcaption>The 2012 Remembrance reverse $2 coin.</figcaption></figure><p>In 2012, the Australian mint released the first ever different designed two-dollar coin. It features a poppy flower, with the words <i>Lest we Forget</i> and <i>Remembrance Day</i> in the background of the coin. There had been no commemorative designs for this issue, until the 2012 Remembrance coin was minted. Along with the 2012 Remembrance coin was a coin with the same text and image but the centre poppy was red with a black centre. It was therefore the first coloured circulating coin in Australia. </p><p>On 21 June 2013, a third commemorative two-dollar coin was launched by the Royal Australian Mint. This coin, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the coronation of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_ii" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth ii">Queen Elizabeth II</a>, featured a purple circle bordering <a href="/wiki/St_Edward%27s_Crown" title="St Edward's Crown">St Edward's Crown</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a part of the 100 years of <a href="/wiki/Anzac_Day" title="Anzac Day">Anzac Day</a> a coin programme launched by the Royal Australian Mint, two separate coloured coins were released. The first was released in 2014, it featured two green circles in the middle of the coin and a dove in the centre. The word <i>Remembrance</i> was stretched across the top of the coin. In 2015, the fourth circulating coloured coin in Australia was released. It includes red stripes much like the 2013 Queen Coronation coin. It also features five crosses amongst poppies and the words <i>Lest we Forget</i> in the centre. A fifth coin was also released in 2015. It is sunset orange and it features a sun in the centre with birds and the <a href="/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields" title="In Flanders Fields">Flanders Field</a> poem in the background. </p><p>In 2016 a commemorative coin was issued for the <a href="/wiki/2016_Summer_Olympics" title="2016 Summer Olympics">Rio Olympic Games</a>. Five Coins were issued for circulation via <a href="/wiki/Woolworths_Limited" class="mw-redirect" title="Woolworths Limited">Woolworths</a> and were made available in packs of the 5 coins on 27 July 2016. A <a href="/wiki/2016_Summer_Paralympics" title="2016 Summer Paralympics">Paralympic Games</a> coin was issued on 22 August 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-WooliesOlympics2016_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WooliesOlympics2016-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The size of the $2 coin was decided after much consideration of the most appropriate size and thickness, as well as security considerations (that could not be imitated by previously-existing coins such as the <a href="/wiki/Australian_five-cent_coin" title="Australian five-cent coin">5c</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-ourcoins_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ourcoins-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, with an uninterrupted milling on the 5-cent, and the 2 dollars having 5 grooves in 4 lots separated by 7 mm length of the side, identification is easy. It has the same size and milling as the <a href="/wiki/Swedish_krona" title="Swedish krona">10 Swedish kronor</a>. </p><p>Its smaller size in comparison to the $1 coin can lead to confusion for visitors from outside Australia. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Minting_figures">Minting figures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Australian_two-dollar_coin&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Minting figures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The coin has only been struck at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Australian_Mint" title="Royal Australian Mint">Royal Australian Mint</a> in <a href="/wiki/Canberra" title="Canberra">Canberra</a>, the nation's capital. The only year without production was 1991 (due to the large number issued for the coin's introduction in 1988).<sup id="cite_ref-two_dollar_mint_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two_dollar_mint-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year</th> <th>Mintage </th></tr> <tr> <td>1988*</td> <td>160,900,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1989*</td> <td>31,600,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990</td> <td>10,300,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991</td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td>1992</td> <td>15,500,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1993</td> <td>4,900,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1994</td> <td>22,100,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995</td> <td>15,500,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996</td> <td>13,900,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1997</td> <td>19,000,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998</td> <td>8,700,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999</td> <td>27,300,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000</td> <td>5,700,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2001</td> <td>35,600,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2002</td> <td>29,700,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003</td> <td>13,700,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2004</td> <td>20,000,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2005</td> <td>45,500,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2006</td> <td>40,500,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2007</td> <td>26,000,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2008</td> <td>47,000,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2009</td> <td>74,500,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2010</td> <td>36,500,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2011</td> <td>1,800,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012</td> <td>5,900,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2013</td> <td>35,100,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2014</td> <td>39,900,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015</td> <td>22,000,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016</td> <td>12,900,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2017</td> <td>16,400,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018</td> <td>14,600,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2019</td> <td>IRB 9,000,000 <p>JC 2,000,000 </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center; font-size:8pt;" colspan="4" align="center">"*" denotes that coins were minted with the designer's initials </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center; font-size:8pt;" colspan="4" align="center">References: <sup id="cite_ref-two_dollar_mint_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two_dollar_mint-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Commemorative_coins">Commemorative coins</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Australian_two-dollar_coin&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Commemorative coins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Commemorative_coins_of_Australia" title="Commemorative coins of Australia">Commemorative coins of Australia</a></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year</th> <th>Subject</th> <th>Colours/Features</th> <th>Mintage </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">2012</td> <td rowspan="2">Poppy</td> <td>None</td> <td>5,800,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Red</td> <td>500,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012</td> <td>Commemorating Remembrance Day with an image of a red poppy. Designed by Aaron Baggio.</td> <td></td> <td>.5 million </td></tr> <tr> <td>2013</td> <td>60th Anniversary of Queen's Coronation</td> <td>Purple</td> <td>1,000,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2014</td> <td>Remembrance Day</td> <td>Green</td> <td>1,850,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">2015</td> <td>100 Years of ANZACs</td> <td>Red</td> <td>1,460,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/In_Flanders_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="In Flanders Field">In Flanders Field</a></i></td> <td>Orange</td> <td>2,150,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="7">2016</td> <td>50 Years of Decimal Currency</td> <td>Pre-decimal <a href="/wiki/Crown_(Australian_coin)" title="Crown (Australian coin)">Crown</a> on obverse</td> <td>2,880,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/2016_Rio_Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 Rio Olympics">2016 Rio Olympics</a>**</td> <td>Blue</td> <td rowspan="6">2,000,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Black </td></tr> <tr> <td>Red </td></tr> <tr> <td>Yellow </td></tr> <tr> <td>Green </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2016_Rio_Paralympics" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 Rio Paralympics">2016 Rio Paralympics</a>**</td> <td>Green/Yellow/Red/Blue </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5">2017</td> <td>Lest We Forget</td> <td>Blue/Green/Yellow</td> <td>3,900,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Possum_Magic" title="Possum Magic">Possum Magic</a>**</td> <td>Pink/Purple/Orange/Blue</td> <td rowspan="3">N/A </td></tr> <tr> <td>Red/Orange/Purple/Yellow/Blue </td></tr> <tr> <td>Blue/Navy/Pink/Orange/Green </td></tr> <tr> <td>Remembrance </td> <td>Green/Purple <a href="/wiki/Rosemary" title="Rosemary">rosemary</a>. </td> <td>2,100,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5">2018</td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/2018_Commonwealth_Games" title="2018 Commonwealth Games">2018 Commonwealth Games</a>**</td> <td>Red</td> <td rowspan="3">TBA </td></tr> <tr> <td>Green </td></tr> <tr> <td>Blue </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Australian_War_Memorial" title="Australian War Memorial">Eternal Flame</a> </td> <td>Blue/Orange </td> <td>3,400,000* </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2018_Invictus_Games" title="2018 Invictus Games">2018 Invictus Games</a> </td> <td>None </td> <td>TBA </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018 </td> <td>100th Anniversary of the <a href="/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918" title="Armistice of 11 November 1918">Armistice of 11 November 1918</a> </td> <td>Red </td> <td>1,700,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="6">2019</td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Mr._Squiggle" title="Mr. Squiggle">Mr. Squiggle</a>**</td> <td>Turquoise/Yellow/Red</td> <td rowspan="5">TBA </td></tr> <tr> <td>Yellow/Orange/Green </td></tr> <tr> <td>Pink/Orange/Green </td></tr> <tr> <td>Blue/Black/White </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=30th_Anniversary_of_National_Police_Remembrance_Day&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="30th Anniversary of National Police Remembrance Day (page does not exist)">30th Anniversary of National Police Remembrance Day</a> </td> <td>Blue/White </td></tr> <tr> <td>Wallabies – <a href="/wiki/2019_Rugby_World_Cup" title="2019 Rugby World Cup">2019 Rugby World Cup</a>** </td> <td>Green/Gold </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="7">2020</td> <td><a href="/wiki/ICC_Women%27s_T20_World_Cup" class="mw-redirect" title="ICC Women's T20 World Cup">ICC Women's T20 World Cup</a>**</td> <td>Yellow/Blue/Purple</td> <td rowspan="7">TBA </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics" title="2020 Summer Olympics">2020 Tokyo Olympics</a>**</td> <td>Blue cherry blossoms </td></tr> <tr> <td>Black cherry blossoms </td></tr> <tr> <td>Red cherry blossoms </td></tr> <tr> <td>Yellow cherry blossoms </td></tr> <tr> <td>Green cherry blossoms </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2020_Summer_Paralympics" title="2020 Summer Paralympics">2020 Tokyo Paralympics</a>**</td> <td>Green/Yellow </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center; font-size:8pt;" colspan="4" align="center">"*" denotes partial numbers – total production to be confirmed </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center; font-size:8pt;" colspan="4" align="center">"**" denotes release through <a href="/wiki/Woolworths_Supermarkets" title="Woolworths Supermarkets">Woolworths Supermarkets</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center; font-size:8pt;" colspan="4" align="center">References: <sup id="cite_ref-two_dollar_mint_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two_dollar_mint-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WooliesOlympics2016_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WooliesOlympics2016-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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