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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Land Series - Frilled-Neck Lizard
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Composition | Aluminium bronze (92% Copper, 6% Aluminium, 2% Nickel, Pad Printed) |
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| Obverse description | The fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, as designed by Ian Rank-Broadley, with the Queen wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara. The legend 'ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2009' arcs around the upper field, with the designer's initials 'IRB' appearing below the portrait truncation. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2009 IRB |
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The Land Series ran from 2008 to 2009 and marked the Royal Australian Mint's first sustained use of pad printing on circulating coinage — a process that applied a coloured ink layer directly onto struck blanks. The frilled-neck lizard appeared on the final coin of the series. Most examples that reached circulation shed their printed colour quickly through handling, making well-preserved coloured specimens noticeably harder to find than the mintage figures alone would suggest.