New Release $5!!!!! Distinctly Australian

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New Australia Day coin from the Royal Australian Mint

2015 $5 Coloured Distinctly Coin.

$5 Al Zn Br 38.74 mm 20.00 g  Frosted Uncirculated 30,000

It comes with a price of $50.....unbelievable!!!!

[JeffH]

I am not sure that would even tempt grannies. The detail of the artwork looks good; the picture itself is kitsch!
2015 $5 Coloured Distinctly Coin

Kitsch is a low-brow style of mass-produced art or design using popular or cultural icons. Kitsch generally includes unsubstantial or gaudy works or decoration, or works that are calculated to have popular appeal. Wikipedia

[Fulvio]

...the picture itself is kitsch!

Looks like a Soviet communist-era motivational poster.

[kchan1111]

I don't see Prince Philip.

[trout]

I don't see Prince Philip.

Don't you mean SIR Prince Phillip, besides  the coin isn't big enough to fit those ears on anyway  :laugh2:

[robbiegal]

that is a real low for the RAM
shocking coin

[kchan1111]

...the picture itself is kitsch!

Looks like a Soviet communist-era motivational poster.

[robbiegal]

it doesn't say who the designer is - I bet they aren't Australian

[trout]

These people at RAM have to get off whatever drugs they are on and get back to reality.
SERIOUSLY this is Crap

[robbiegal]

it shows just how stuck some people are in this white Australian icon bs

then they have the hide to pop an aboriginal 'traditional' man sitting on the truck with his paint and spear and not even a mention of Aboriginal Australia in the icon list on the packaging

seriously? are Australian Aborigines " familiar Australian icons" or the traditional custodians of this land?

then there's the chick in the swimsuit with the 1960's style surfboard

and the list could go on

bloody insulting crap
Dot painting's are listed as Australian Icons but there is not imagery of a dot painting? unless someone else can see it?

I am going to write a letter and complain

[Pedro]

Not for me thanks :stinker:

Pedro

[robbiegal]

I sent them feedback and added this as well,

This coin imagery is outdated and insulting to contemporary Australians.
This country was built on the blood sweat and tears of Aboriginal Australians, White Australians, Europeans, Chinese and South Sea Islanders and the list could go on. This coin omits so much of our social history.

probably won't get a reply
for sure,  the tourist market is being targeted in this one

[trout]

I sent them feedback and added this as well,

This coin imagery is outdated and insulting to contemporary Australians.
This country was built on the blood sweat and tears of Aboriginal Australians, White Australians, Europeans, Chinese and South Sea Islanders and the list could go on. This coin omits so much of our social history.

probably won't get a reply
for sure,  the tourist market is being targeted in this one

I will answer this in "the missbehavers" RG :ok:

[robbiegal]

found the Australian Artist whose artwork they used
never heard of him until today
http://www.tsinganos.com/

[Coiny Chris]

Hello,

What a Crock, why don't they just use the Village People ?