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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Land Series - Wallaby
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Thickness | 2.5 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 DOLLAR |
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| Mint | Royal Australian Mint, Canberra |
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The Land Series was a short-lived Royal Australian Mint program that used pad printing — a technique borrowed from industrial manufacturing — to apply polychromatic color directly onto circulating coinage. Australia was among the first countries to deploy this process on a standard circulation dollar, and the 2008 wallaby issue was one of the earliest releases in the series.
Pad printing on coin surfaces presents long-term durability problems; color wear is common with circulation, making uncirculated survivors meaningfully more representative of original mint intent.