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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Sydney Cove Medallion - Silver Proof - High Relief
| Issuer | Perth Mint |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The fourth effigy of Queen Elizabeth II faces right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, as designed by Ian Rank-Broadley. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs above the portrait, with AUSTRALIA 2010 and the denomination 1 DOLLAR inscribed below. The engraver's initials IRB appear at the lower right of the truncation. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a polished proof field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ETRURIA 1789 |
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The Sydney Cove Medallion was struck in Staffordshire, England in 1789 using clay transported from the colony's brickfields — making it almost certainly the first manufactured object exported from Australian soil. Josiah Wedgwood produced the original jasperware pieces, and examples were distributed to abolitionists and politicians as a curiosity from Britain's newest possession. The Perth Mint's decision to recreate the medallion's design in high relief exploits the depth that silver proof striking can achieve in ways jasperware cannot, pressing the relief to its practical limit for a coin of this diameter.