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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Polar Series - Rock Hopper Penguin
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Reverse description | A Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) rendered in pad-printed polychrome colour, depicted standing within a stylised Antarctic polar landscape against a frosted field. The species is shown with characteristic yellow superciliary plumes and red eyes. The denomination 1 DOLLAR appears in the lower portion of the field. |
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| Mint | Royal Australian Mint, Canberra |
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The Rockhopper Penguin dollar was part of the Royal Australian Mint's Polar Series, which ran from 2012 and used pad printing — a process borrowed from industrial parts manufacturing — to apply color directly onto the coin surface without a separate insert or capsule. The technique was still relatively novel for circulation-quality issues at the time. Rockhoppers themselves have no particular presence in Australian territory; the series drew from subantarctic fauna broadly, not strictly Australian species.