2012 $1 Sir Douglas Mawson PNC Gold - 0.5g Proof The new 12-sided £1 coin

The new 12-sided £1 coin is the most innovative ever produced by The Royal Mint

In expressing the theme through her own distinctive style

generous and tenacious

which was a whopping 16 to 20 metres long

Join me on this International Day of People with Disability as we start a national conversation to change perceptions so everyone with disability can live their dream” – Dylan Alcott OAM

2012 $1 Sir Douglas Mawson PNC Gold - 0.5g Proof The new 12-sided £1 coinA mining engineer by training, Douglas Mawson first journeyed to the Antarctic as a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907 09 British Antarctic Expedition. On this expedition, Mawson, fellow Australian scientist Tannatt William Edgeworth David, and English doctor Alistair Mackay were the first men to reach the South Magnetic Pole after sledging a record 2,000 kilometres in 122 days. The 1911 14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition was planned by Mawson