The Royal Australian Mint will release its 2026 Premium Rolled Coin Set on 4 June, and the headline draw is not the packaging. It is the dollar. This year’s six roll set includes the special edition 2026 $1 carrying the Mob of Six Roos design, the one year only circulating issue that adds a sixth kangaroo to Stuart Devlin’s 1984 composition to mark sixty years of Australian decimal currency.
For collectors who missed the coin in change, this is the cleaner path to acquiring it. The set’s $1 roll, and a separately available non premium roll, present the coins in uncirculated condition straight from the Mint, no pocket wear, no jangle in a Coles till, no hunt through a tin of mixed change.
The Coin That Earns the Set Its News Peg
The Mob of Six Roos entered circulation in the last week of January 2026, with every $1 coin dated 2026 carrying the new design before production reverts to the original five kangaroo motif in 2027. That one year window is the entire premise of the issue. The Mint added a single roo, one for each decade since the 1966 introduction of decimal currency, to a design that has sat unchanged on the Australian dollar since its 1984 debut.
Stuart Devlin’s original Mob of Roos is one of the most recognised reverses in modern circulation anywhere in the world. Modifying it, even temporarily, is not a small editorial decision. The Mint frames the addition as a tribute, with the sixth kangaroo standing in for each ten year span of decimal coinage, but the design itself does the persuading, the new animal slots into the composition without disrupting the rhythm Devlin established four decades ago.
What’s In the Set
The Premium Rolled Coin Set comprises six rolls covering the full Australian circulating series: the 5c Echidna, the 10c Lyrebird, the 20c Platypus, the 50c Coat of Arms, the special 2026 $1 Mob of Six Roos, and the $2 Aboriginal Elder. Each roll is wrapped in Mint branded paper, sealed with a tamper evident holographic sticker, and displayed with an obverse visible at one end and a reverse at the other. The set ships in a Mint branded storage box.
The roll end presentation matters more than it might sound. For collectors building a thematic display, having both sides of each denomination readable at a glance, without breaking the tamper seal, is the structural argument for buying the set rather than the single roll.
| Coin | Design | Composition | Shape | Edge | Mass | Diameter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5c | Echidna | 75% Cu / 25% Ni | Round | Milled | 2.83 g | 19.41 mm |
| 10c | Lyrebird | 75% Cu / 25% Ni | Round | Milled | 6.65 g | 23.60 mm |
| 20c | Platypus | 75% Cu / 25% Ni | Round | Milled | 11.30 g | 28.52 mm |
| 50c | Coat of Arms | 75% Cu / 25% Ni | Dodecagon | Milled | 15.55 g | 31.51 mm |
| $1 | Mob of Six Roos (2026 special edition) | 92% Cu / 6% Al / 2% Ni | Round | Interrupted Milling | 9.00 g | 25.00 mm |
| $2 | Aboriginal Elder | 92% Cu / 6% Al / 2% Ni | Round | Interrupted Milling | 6.60 g | 20.50 mm |
Availability and Price
The set goes on sale from 08:30 AEST on Thursday 4 June 2026 through the Mint’s online shop, the Mint Contact Centre on 1300 652 020, the Canberra Mint Shop, and participating authorised distributors. The issue price is A$285.00, the mintage is uncapped, and there is no per person purchase limit, three details that, taken together, signal a release designed for broad collector access rather than a sellout chase.
Why It Matters
The Premium Rolled Set is an annual fixture, and in most years it is a routine product launch, useful for set builders, unremarkable for everyone else. 2026 is the exception. The Mob of Six Roos is a circulating design with a hard expiry: the Mint has said the dies will retire at year’s end, and the five kangaroo Devlin reverse returns in 2027. The window in which a buyer can acquire the new design in mint state, from the source, with a tamper seal intact, closes when this set sells through. For a coin that will be in pockets and tills across Australia for years to come, the Mint roll is the way to bank the design before it becomes the one your fingers can’t quite tell apart from change.
