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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Centenary of Australian Lighthouses
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a lighthouse prominently positioned atop a rugged cliff edge, its beam radiating outward across a dramatically turbulent sea rendered with fine engraving detail. The design commemorates the centenary of the Australian Lighthouse Service. The commemorative legend CENTENARY OF THE AUSTRALIAN LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE is inscribed around the design, with the Perth Mint privy mark P appearing in the field. |
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Australia's lighthouse centenary commemorated here refers to the 1915 transfer of lighthouse administration from individual colonial-era authorities to the Commonwealth, consolidated under the Department of Home Affairs. That bureaucratic handover was slow and contested — some state governments resisted ceding control of infrastructure they had built and funded for decades.
Perth Mint issued this as part of a broader series marking Australian maritime heritage. The aluminium bronze composition matches the circulating dollar specification, meaning examples occasionally do enter general circulation rather than staying in collector hands.