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We all have kangaroos hopping around our coin purse – and they’ve been on money since 1795

  • Written by Adrian Dyer, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
We all have kangaroos hopping around our coin purse – and they’ve been on money since 1795The one tonne gold kangaroo coin at the Perth Mint.Shutterstock

On the Australian one dollar coin, you will often find the famous representation of a mob of five kangaroos. But when did the kangaroo first appear on money?

My new research, published in the Australian Coin Review, tracks through history the iconic representation of kangaroos on...

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