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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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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse description | The fourth effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank-Broadley faces right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara. The legend ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2008 1 DOLLAR encircles the portrait, with the engraver's initials IRB appearing below the truncation. The effigy is rendered in a refined, high-relief style characteristic of Rank-Broadley's portraiture. |
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| Reverse description | A solitary bugler stands in the field amid a bed of vibrant pad-printed red poppies, commemorating those who fell in the First World War. Below the central motif appears a detailed representation of the 1904 Rising Sun badge of the Australian military, featuring a scroll inscribed AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH MILITARY FORCES. The upper legend reads 90th ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WWI, with the commemorative dates 1918 - 2008 positioned in the lower field. The Perth Mint privy mark P and designer's initials SB appear in the lower portion of the design. |
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Australia entered the First World War under an imperial obligation rather than any independent declaration, and by the armistice of November 1918 had suffered approximately 60,000 dead from a total population of under five million — a per-capita loss rate that shocked the country and permanently altered its relationship with Britain. The 90th anniversary issue appeared in 2008, the same year Australia's then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued the formal apology to the Stolen Generations, a period of notable national reflection on historical memory.
Perth Mint struck this as a one-year type with a mintage ceiling typical of its commemorative silver dollar program, distributed primarily through collector packaging rather than circulation channels.