The coin will be released on the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death (Image: Royal Australian Mint)

       On the eve of the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, September 7, Australia will honour the late Queen with a new five-dollar coin.

       It features the former monarch on one side, and depictions of Australian Aboriginal heritage and convict history on the other.

       The image of the Queen was designed by Jody Clark, a British engraver who produced portraits of the monarch for British coinage.

       The other side of the coin features Australia’s World Heritage sites from the Sydney Opera House, the Great Barrier Reef, the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, and the tropical rainforests of northern Queensland.

       The new coin, produced by the Royal Australian Mint, was unveiled at the Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, a site built by the British to house convicts after the penal colony of New South Wales was established in 1788.

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       Australian Currency (Image: Getty Images / stock image)

       Australia has 11 UNESCO-recognised convict sites and more than 166,000 men, women, and children were banished as convicts to Australia in a period of 80 years.

       Some of the worst convicts of the British Empire were sent to Port Arthur, one of the sites featured on the coin.

       The country’s Aboriginal heritage is represented by depictions of ancient settlements and an image of a handprint, a mark that Aborigines once left on the walls of caves and on rock slabs across the continent.

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       As reported in the Telegraph, Professor Richard Mackay, a former chairman of Australia’s World Heritage Advisory Committee, said: "This amazing coin highlights the diversity of Australia’s internationally significant heritage and will encourage awareness of our unique biodiversity, deep indigenous connections with country and extraordinary cultural places."

       Meanwhile, Andrew Leigh, a government minister, said: "As Australians, we’re fortunate to live in a country with so much natural beauty.

       "By celebrating Australia’s World Heritage sites through this collectible coin, the Royal Australian Mint is doing its bit to help spread the word about our magnificent natural and built heritage."

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