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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - WW1 War Heroes Red Poppy
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ian Rank-Broadley |
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| Obverse description | Fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley. The legend ELIZABETH II and AUSTRALIA flank the effigy, with the date 2015 and the designer's initials IRB appearing in the field. The portrait is rendered in fine relief against a flat field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2015 IRB |
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Issued to mark the centenary of Australia's involvement in World War One, this dollar introduced pad printing to Australian circulation coinage — a first for the Royal Australian Mint. The red poppy applied via that process directly references the association between Flanders poppies and the Western Front dead, an image embedded in Anglophone remembrance culture since John McCrae's 1915 poem "In Flanders Fields." The pad-printed colour was not expected to survive heavy circulation, making well-preserved examples increasingly difficult to source from change.