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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Gumnut Babies
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicts two Gumnut Babies, the iconic characters created by Australian author and illustrator May Gibbs, seated amidst stylised native Australian wattle flowers and foliage. The inscription MAY GIBBS GUMNUT BABIES arcs across the upper field, with 100TH ANNIVERSARY appearing in the lower field. The Perth Mint's 'P' mintmark is present within the design, accompanied by the copyright notice TM ©TNS & CPA. |
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The "Gumnut Babies" design draws on May Gibbs's 1918 illustrated children's book characters, which have been embedded in Australian popular culture for over a century. Gibbs based her bush fairy world on the flora of the Western Australian coastal scrub she observed around Cottesloe. The Perth Mint has returned to her imagery repeatedly across collector and circulation-adjacent issues, trading on a nostalgia that cuts across generations of Australian buyers.
KM#3219 is a collector issue rather than a circulation strike, though struck in the same aluminium bronze alloy used for everyday dollars since decimalisation.