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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Ocean Series - White Shark
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley after his fourth definitive portrait of the Queen. The truncation of the bust is bare, and the engraver's initials IRB appear below. The encircling legend reads ELIZABETH II to the left and AUSTRALIA 2007 to the right, all in raised Latin lettering against a smooth field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2007 IRB |
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The Ocean Series marked one of the Royal Australian Mint's early sustained experiments with pad printing — a technique borrowed from industrial manufacturing that allowed polychrome surface detail impossible through conventional die work alone. The white shark dollar was issued the same year Australia's white pointer population remained listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, a status that had been hard-won after decades in which the species was commercially targeted for its jaws and fins with no federal protection whatsoever.