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link | ROYAL AUSTRALIAN MINT IYIL2019 FIFTY CENT COIN

This week the Royal Australian Mint announced the release of a commemorative 50 cent coin for the International Year of Indigenous Languages! The new coin features the word for ‘money’ in fourteen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages from across Australia. The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) collaborated on the initiative which included consultations with the fourteen language groups represented on the new coinage.

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