2012 $1 Uncirculated Coin - Official Australian Open Men s Trophy Coin
Description
The four Grand Slam tournaments: Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, represent the pinnacle of world tennis competition. Wimbledon was the first of these tournaments and commenced in 1877, with the Australian Open, originally the Australasian Championships, starting in 1905. Since then the Australian Open has been contested each year, except during the two World Wars and in 1986, when the tournament shifted from mid-December to mid-January.
The uncirculated coins feature the iconic trophies of the Australian Open presented on a background of curved stripes that mirror the rubber strip on a tennis ball. Given the iconic stature of both the Men's and Women's trophies, we have given them their own respective coins.