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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Silver Kangaroo, Reg Mombassa
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | A stylised outdoor scene in the distinctive folk-art manner of artist Reg Mombassa, featuring an upright kangaroo facing left and holding an Australian rules football in its forepaw. The background depicts a rural landscape with stylised trees, rolling hills, clouds, and a corrugated-iron shed to the right. The denomination 'one dollar' is inscribed in cursive script along the lower field, with 'ONE OUNCE FINE SILVER' in smaller capitalised letters beneath. The artist's signature 'REG M' appears in the lower right field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Reg Mombassa — born Chris O'Doherty — is better known as a founding member of the band Mental As Anything and a longtime designer for Mambo Graphics, whose deliberately irreverent Australian imagery made Mambo a cultural flashpoint through the 1980s and 90s. His involvement in a Royal Australian Mint issue was a deliberate curatorial choice to bring an outsider sensibility into the bullion series. The 2008 Silver Kangaroo program rotated guest artists annually, giving each a single year's run before the next designer took over.