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1.25 Dollars - Elizabeth II 3rd and 4th Portrait - Lunar New Year - Silver Gilt
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | This bimetallic coin features two concentric obverse designs. The outer silver ring displays the third portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Raphael Maklouf, shown as a right-facing draped bust wearing the George IV State Diadem, with the legend 'ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 1 DOLLAR 2007' arranged around the periphery against a dark field, bordered by a ring of fine beads. The central gold-plated insert bears the fourth portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicting a right-facing effigy with a tiara, surrounded by the legend 'ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA' above and '25 CENTS' in the lower field, also within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Australia's Lunar New Year coin program, launched by the Royal Australian Mint in the 1990s, was designed explicitly to engage Chinese-Australian communities and capture export demand from Southeast Asian gift markets — a commercial calculation that proved correct. The 2007 issue marks the Year of the Pig, the twelfth and final sign in the cycle, making it the concluding piece of the first complete twelve-year Lunar series the RAM produced in this bimetallic silver-gilt format.
The $1.25 denomination itself is an artifact of combining two face values across the bimetallic zones, a legal-tender technicality that has no practical circulation intention whatsoever.