How many 10 cents make a dollar Australian

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Currency Used on the Sunshine Coast
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How many 10 cents are in a dollar?
How many Australian cents make a dollar?
Is 10 cent a dollar?
How much money is 10 cents?

Currency Used on the Sunshine Coast

The official currency in Australia is the Australian dollar. The value of the Australian dollar goes up and down like a yo-yo and in the last few years has been as low as US$0.45 but is now hanging around the US$0.96 mark.

The Australian dollar is divided into 100 cents. Coin denominations are 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, $1 and $2. Notes are $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100, are colour coded and made from a plastic compound that will survive a wash or a swim.

Even though we no longer have 1 and 2 cent coins in circulation, many shops sell products at odd amounts. However, the law provides that the TOTAL bill is rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cents. So $19.97 becomes $19.95, $19.98 becomes $20.00.

Travellers cheques, especially in foreign currencies, are generally not accepted except by hotels and big stores and tourist shops. These display a `travellers cheques welcome' sign. Cash your cheques at a bank or Bureau de Change to ensure you have enough spending money.

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Ten Cents

Obverse
Australia
Value	0.10 AUD
Mass	5.65 g
Diameter	23.60 mm
Thickness	2.00 mm
Edge	milled
Composition	75% Copper, 25% Nickel
Years of minting	1966–present
Catalog number	—
Design	Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia
Designer	Ian Rank-Broadley
Design date	1999
Reverse

Design	Male superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae)
Designer	Stuart Devlin
Design date	1966

The Australian ten-cent coin is a coin of the decimal Australian dollar. When the dollar was introduced as half of an Australian pound on 14 February 1966, the coin inherited the specifications of the pre-decimal shilling; both coins were worth one twentieth of a pound and were called "bob". On introduction it was the fourth-lowest denomination coin. Since the withdrawal from circulation of the one and two cent coins in 1992, it has been the second-lowest denomination coin in circulation.

For the first year of minting (1966), 30 million coins were produced at the British Royal Mint (then in London), and 11 million at the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra. Since then, all coins have been produced in Canberra, with the exception of 1981 when 40 million coins from the Royal Mint's new headquarters in Llantrisant, Wales supplemented the 76.1 million produced in Canberra.[1]

Years without issue for the 10c, were 1986, 1987, 1995 and 1996. Those years were only for mint and proof sets. The lowest mintage was in 2011, when 1.7 million coins were issued. There has been one commemorative issue for this denomination, the 50th anniversary of decimal currency in 2016.[1]

The image of a male superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) is displayed on the reverse of all ten-cent coin. It was designed by Stuart Devlin, who designed the reverses of all of the coins of the Australian dollar introduced in 1966.[1]

The obverse has displayed different designs featuring the head of Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia:[2] from 1966 to 1984, the head by Arnold Machin; from 1985 to 1998, the head by Raphael Maklouf; from 1999 to 2015, and 2017, the head by Ian Rank-Broadley and since 2019, the head by Jody Clark. The obverse of these coins has the inscription AUSTRALIA and the year-of-issue on the right hand side, and ELIZABETH II on the left hand side. In 2016, (the 50th anniversary of decimal currency), the obverse was designed by G. K. Gray.[1]

2016 obverse design to celebrate the 50th anniversary of decimal currency

Year	Subject	Mintage
2016	obverse design to celebrate the 50th anniversary of decimal currency	7,000,000

10c coins are legal tender for amounts not exceeding $5 for any payment of a debt.[3]

References[edit]

^ a b c d "Ten cents". ramint.gov.au. 14 February 1966. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
^ The inclusion of an effigy of the Queen on the obverse of Australia's coinage is mandated by Regulation 4 (c) of the Currency Regulations made under the Currency Act 1965. Portraits of Her Majesty have all faced to the right in line with a convention, said to have commenced with Charles II (1660-1685), that the new Monarch's portrait would face in a direction opposite to that of their predecessor.
- Coins from Australia / Coin Type: Ten Cents, Online Coin Club.
^ "RBA Banknotes: Legal Tender". banknotes.rba.gov.au. Retrieved 24 July 2018.

External links[edit]

Australian Decimal Currency, www.australianstamp.com
10 cents, museumvictoria.com.au

How many 10 cents are in a dollar?

Different Ways to Make a Dollar Can you make a dollar using only one type of coin? Answer: 100 pennies, 20 nickels, 10 dimes, or 4 quarters; each = 1 dollar.

How many Australian cents make a dollar?

Within Australia, it is almost always abbreviated with the dollar sign ($), with A$ or AU$ sometimes used to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies. The $ symbol precedes the amount. It is subdivided into 100 cents.

Is 10 cent a dollar?

The dime, in United States usage, is a ten-cent coin, one tenth of a United States dollar, labeled formally as "one dime". The denomination was first authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792.