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* Ten cent - a lyrebird (a native bird)

* Twenty cent - the [[platypus]]

* Fifty cent - a [[kangaroo]] and an [[emu]] holding the Australian coat of arms. This large coin is octagonalundecagonal (eleven-sided) cupro-nickel, it replaced a round silver 50 cent coin which, soon after issue, became far more valuable for its silver content than as a unit of currency.

Copper one cent and two cent coins were abolished in [[1991]]. Cash prices are now rounded to the nearest five cents.