Australia: Coin Two Dollars 2016 Paralympic - detailed information

To celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, the Royal Australian Mint launched a series of limited edition Australian Olympic and Paralympic $2 coins.

The collection includes five Australian Olympic coins, each designed to showcase one of the Olympic Rings (with a distinctive striped circle around the centre, coloured as the respective Olympic ring), and one Australian Paralympic coin, Australia's first multi-coloured $2 coin.

Interestingly, the coins were released into circulation exclusively through the Woolworths chain of supermarkets, with customers receiving them in their change only (one colour every week; the Paralympic coins were released on 22 August 2016).

A limited number were also issued in special folders.

Crowned head of Queen Elizabeth II facing right (effigy known as the "Fourth portrait"). In tiny letters below head the artist's initials IRB (for Ian Rank-Broadley). Around, ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2016.

Around a central design, multi-coloured ribbons forming a ring. Above, a figure of a Paralympic participant racing in a wheelchair. Around below the multi-coloured circle, the denomination TWO DOLLARS. Around below near the rim, 2016 AUSTRALIAN PARALYMPIC TEAM.