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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Australian Light Horse
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#3380 |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2017 1 DOLLAR 2017 |
| Reverse description | A uniformed soldier of the Australian Light Horse, wearing a slouch hat adorned with an emu feather plume and carrying a rifle at his side, is depicted in dynamic full gallop on horseback to the left across a ground line. The designer's initials 'AW' appear in the lower right field, with the Perth Mint mintmark 'P' at the bottom centre. The curved legend 'AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE WWI' arcs along the left and upper periphery within a beaded inner border. |
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The Australian Light Horse commemorative dollar series has produced numerous issues, but this 2017 entry ties to one of the more tactically significant episodes in Australian military history — the charge at Beersheba in October 1917, whose centenary fell that year. The 4th Light Horse Brigade's mounted assault on Ottoman-held Beersheba is considered the last successful cavalry charge in history, and the centenary prompted a wave of Australian commemorative releases across multiple denominations and issuers.
The Royal Australian Mint struck this in aluminium bronze, the same alloy used in circulating dollar coinage since 1984, meaning collector and circulation strikes share a base composition — a distinction worth confirming before attributing circulation wear.