2000 $5 Sydney Olympic Gold Commemorative Coin - Handball Collectable Figurine indicating a manufacturing error during

indicating a manufacturing error during the coin's striking process

symbolic of Australia’s place in international astronomy

Now immortalised on this legal tender coin

Issue date: 2023

2000 $5 Sydney Olympic Gold Commemorative Coin - Handball Collectable Figurine indicating a manufacturing error duringThis coin was released as a joint collaboration between the Royal Australian Mint and the Perth Mint to celebrate the holding of the XXVII Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia in the year 2000. Coins were all dated 2000 but were released between 1997 and 2000. Some were available separately and some were only available in a set of the full 28 coins in a special album. Interestingly some had the Maklouf Obverse and some had the Rank Broadly Obverse.