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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Lest We Forget - Gallipoli
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Composition | Aluminium bronze |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a group of five ANZAC soldiers depicted in high relief, armed with rifles and dressed in characteristic World War I field uniforms and slouch hats, shown advancing together in a scene evoking the Gallipoli landing. To the upper left, the silhouette of a lone soldier sounding a bugle rises above a subtle horizon line, symbolising remembrance. The dominant legend GALLIPOLI 100 YEARS arcs across the upper field, while the motto LEST WE FORGET and the commemorative date APRIL 25 appear to the left in the mid-field. The Perth Mint's P mintmark is visible to the left, near the horizon line. |
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Issued on the centenary of the Gallipoli landings, this dollar was part of Australia's largest and most sustained commemorative program in the mint's history — the four-year ANZAC Centenary series running from 2014 to 2018. The April 25, 1915 landing at Anzac Cove cost over 8,700 Australian lives across the entire campaign, a casualty figure that shocked a nation whose total population barely exceeded five million at the time.
Circulation-quality strikes of this type entered general commerce through bank rolls, making worn examples genuinely worn rather than artificially so.