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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Alphabet Collection - Letter L - Silver Proof
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2015-2017 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | The fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley, is depicted in right-facing profile, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara and a pearl drop earring. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left rim, with AUSTRALIA and the date 2017 continuing along the right, and the denomination 1 DOLLAR positioned along the lower rim. The engraver's initials IRB appear incuse below the truncation of the neck. The frosted effigy is set against a finely milled, granular field. |
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| Mintage | 2015 - Bu - Frosted - (Orange) - 5,000 2016 - BU - Frosted - (Purple) - 5,000 2017 - BU - Frosted - (Green) - 5,000 |
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The Alphabet Collection was issued by the Royal Australian Mint across 2015–2017 as a mintage-limited proof series targeting the collector market, with each letter assigned a distinctly Australian subject. Pad printing — a process borrowed from industrial manufacturing — was used to apply flat colour directly to the coin surface, a technique the RAM adopted to add chromatic detail without the cost of enamelling.
KM#3042 logs the "L" issue. The pad-print process is notoriously susceptible to surface adhesion failure over time, making storage conditions a practical concern for long-term preservation.