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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - 200 Years of Postal Services in Australia
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Weight | 9 g |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicting a crowned Victorian-era cylindrical cast-iron pillar post box, inscribed POST OFFICE on its letter slot panel, set within an open field. The denomination ONE DOLLAR appears as a legend along the upper periphery, while the numeral 200 is rendered in large script to the lower left and the word years in cursive script to the lower right. The commemorative legend OF POSTAL SERVICES IN AUSTRALIA curves along the lower periphery. |
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| Mintage | 2009 - BU in 2 Coin Set - 7,200 2009 - BU in PNC - 32,000 2009 - BU in PNC - Melbourne Stamp Show - 300 |
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Australia's postal history traces back to 1809, when the first official postal arrangements were established in the colony of New South Wales — making 2009 the bicentenary this coin commemorates. For most of the nineteenth century, postage rates were complicated by the federation of separate colonial systems, each running its own stamps and accounting. A single unified Australian Post Office did not emerge until Federation itself in 1901.
The aluminium bronze alloy used here is the same composition Australia has struck its dollar circulation coinage in since 1984.