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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Year of the Pig
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2007 1 DOLLAR IRB |
| Reverse description | A wild boar depicted in profile facing right occupies the central field, rendered in high relief against a stylised background of sweeping diagonal lines and decorative floral scrollwork motifs in each corner, evoking traditional Chinese artistic ornamentation. At the top centre, the Royal Australian Mint's flaming kangaroo privy mark appears above the date 2007. The inscription YEAR OF THE PIG is positioned in the lower central field, with the Chinese character 豬 (pig) displayed prominently below it near the bottom of the design. |
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The 2007 Lunar dollar was part of the Royal Australian Mint's ongoing series timed to the Chinese zodiac calendar — the Year of the Pig running from February 2007 through January 2008. Australia's substantial Chinese-Australian community, one of the oldest in the country dating to the goldrush immigration of the 1850s, made such issues commercially viable in a way few other Western mints could justify. Mintage was capped, and a meaningful portion of the run was absorbed by collectors rather than circulation, keeping well-preserved examples relatively straightforward to find.