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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Bright Bug Series - Cuckoo Wasp
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, as modelled by engraver Ian Rank-Broadley for the fourth definitive portrait. The truncation of the bust is bare, with the engraver's initials IRB incuse below. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left rim, AUSTRALIA along the right rim, and the date 2014 appears at the lower right, all in raised Latin lettering against a smooth field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2014 IRB |
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The Cuckoo Wasp dollar is one of four coins released by the Royal Australian Mint in 2014 under the Bright Bugs series, each featuring pad-print colour technology applied directly to the coin surface — a process the RAM had been refining since the mid-2000s to achieve the kind of chromatic detail impossible through conventional die striking alone. Cuckoo wasps take their name from a parasitic reproductive strategy: females deposit eggs inside the nests of host species, leaving their larvae to consume the host's provisions or young.