One Dollar 2021 V - Victa Lawnmower, Coin from Australia - detailed information

The one dollar coin denomination (written as $1) was introduced in Australia in 1984, replacing the earlier banknotes. The original definitive type featuring five kangaroos has not been changed since its introduction and is still issued regularly.

Apart from the regular design, the Royal Australian Mint issues a large variety of circulating commemorative one dollar coins which have the same specifications and circulate in parallel with the definitive type - such as this one.

This circulating commemorative dollar coin is part of the The Great Aussie Coin Hunt 2 campaign - a series of 26 different $1 coins where each features a letter of the English alphabet and an Australian symbol starting with that letter. The coin for the letter V features the Victa Lawnmower.

V is for Victa Lawnmower - the soundtrack to suburban Australia. The Victa Lawnmower has been cutting lawns since 1952, when the first prototype was made from scrap metal and a peach tin in a garage by Mervyn Victor Richardson. While not the first lawnmower to be invented, the Victa was comparatively lighter and more powerful, creating significant demand for the product. Now almost 70 years on, Victa Lawnmowers are well and truly entrenched in Australian society and also exported abroad.