Green turtle design

Stretching more than 2,300 kilometres along Australia's Queensland coast, the Great Barrier Reef is the world's most extensive coral reef ecosystem. Comprising more than 2,500 reefs and over 900 islands, it supports extraordinary biodiversity, including 600 species of coral, more than 1,500 types of fish and thousands of different molluscs. It is also home to dugongs, whales, dolphins, sharks, rays and six of the world's seven species of marine turtle.

Against a detailed background composed of fish, coral, seagrass and jellyfish, the coin portrays a green turtle which feeds and nests throughout the entire Great Barrier Reef area. Also included in the design is The Perth Mint's 'P' mintmark.