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1 Dollar Swan Pattern Dollar; Gold Proof Fantasy Coin
| Issuer | Australia |
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| Year | 1967 |
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| Composition | Gold (.917) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral '100' occupies the central field, rendered in bold open numerals. The entire field is richly decorated with an intricate all-over pattern of wattle (Acacia) sprigs, featuring clusters of round blossoms and elongated leaves in low relief, filling the background in a dense, naturalistic botanical arrangement. No peripheral legend is present; the denomination is conveyed solely by the central numeral. |
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In 1967, Australia stood at a crossroads: decimalization had arrived the previous year, but the question of whether to adopt a dollar coin — and what it might look like — remained unsettled. Several pattern designs were explored that never reached circulation, and this swan-motif piece belongs to that experimental window. It was never an official government commission in the conventional sense; pieces like this occupy an awkward category, produced outside the normal approval chain, which is why "fantasy coin" is the honest designation rather than an evasion.
The weight places it squarely in sovereign-and-a-half territory — a deliberate nod to existing gold trade coin conventions of the period.