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1 Dollar Swan Pattern Dollar; Lead Test Strike Fantasy Coin
| Issuer | Australia |
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| Year | 1967 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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No Australian dollar coin entered circulation until 1984. This 1967 piece belongs to a period of active internal experimentation following decimalisation in February 1966, when the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra was still calibrating dies, alloys, and planchet specifications for future denominations. Lead test strikes from this period were functional tools — used to check die alignment and relief depth without expending fine metal — and were never intended to leave the mint.
That most did not survive is the point. Those that did exist outside official holdings almost certainly departed through unofficial channels.