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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - 90th Anniversary End of WWI
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The central device depicts the Rising Sun Badge of the Australian Army in high relief, featuring a crown surmounting a half-sun with radiating rays set against a textured field evoking a battlefield landscape. A scrolled ribbon across the badge bears the inscription AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH MILITARY FORCES. The commemorative legend LEST WE FORGET arcs along the upper periphery, while WWI 1918 - 2008 is inscribed along the lower periphery. The Perth Mint's P mintmark appears to the right of the badge. |
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Australia's involvement in World War I ended not at the Armistice of November 1918 but legally at the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919 — a distinction that mattered little to the 60,000 Australians who never came home. The 90th anniversary issue arrived during a period of heavy Australian commemorative dollar production through the Perth Mint, which by the mid-2000s had significantly expanded its collector-focused circulation strikes in aluminium bronze.
KM#1074 is one of several thematically overlapping WWI anniversary pieces from this run. Mintage figures for the series varied considerably across issues.