Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

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

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par Adrian Dyer, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University

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 numismatic items: coins, tokens, paper notes and other objects that can act as money to enable the effective trade of goods.

It turns out that the first…

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