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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Mutiny and Rebellion - The Rum Rebellion
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Rum Rebellion of January 1808 remains the only successful armed overthrow of a government in Australian history. New South Wales Corps officers, led by Major George Johnston, arrested Governor William Bligh — the same Bligh of Bounty infamy — partly in response to his attempts to suppress the illegal rum trade that had become the colony's de facto currency. Bligh was held under house arrest for over a year before being permitted to sail to England.
Johnston was court-martialled in London in 1811 and cashiered, though he escaped a harsher sentence. Bligh never returned to the colony.