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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Burke and Wills 150 Years
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Obverse description | Fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, with a pearl drop earring visible. The portrait, modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley, is rendered in fine relief with the engraver's initials IRB incuse at the base of the truncation. The circumferential legend reads ELIZABETH II • AUSTRALIA 2010, with the denomination 1 DOLLAR positioned along the lower rim, flanked by two raised dots. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61 departed Melbourne to fanfare and returned — for most of its members — not at all. Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills both died near Cooper Creek on the return leg, having reached the tidal flats of the Gulf of Carpentaria but failed to connect with their supply party by a margin of hours. The rescue party found Wills's body in June 1861; Burke had died days earlier.
The Royal Australian Mint issued this dollar in the sesquicentennial year of that departure. KM#1490 is a standard circulation commemorative, aluminium bronze, struck for general release rather than collector sets exclusively.