2012 $1 Sir Douglas Mawson PNC Gold - 0.5g Proof its currency included British gold

its currency included British gold

The new 12-sided £1 coin is the most innovative ever produced by The Royal Mint

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The Royal Australian Mint’s fourth full-colour coin type to be struck for circulation

In expressing the theme through her own distinctive style

2012 $1 Sir Douglas Mawson PNC Gold - 0.5g Proof its currency included British goldA mining engineer by training, Douglas Mawson first journeyed to the Antarctic as a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907 09 British Antarctic Expedition. On this expedition, Mawson, fellow Australian scientist Tannatt William Edgeworth David, and English doctor Alistair Mackay were the first men to reach the South Magnetic Pole after sledging a record 2,000 kilometres in 122 days. The 1911 14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition was planned by Mawson