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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Young Collectors - Rocket Frog
| Issuer | Perth Mint |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Technique | Milled, Colored |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, after the fourth definitive portrait modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear on the truncation of the neck. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II · AUSTRALIA 2012 · separated by raised dots, with the denomination 1 DOLLAR inscribed along the lower rim. The portrait is rendered in fine detail with naturalistic hair and facial modelling characteristic of the Rank-Broadley design. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2012 1 DOLLAR IRB |
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The "Rocket Frog" is the colloquial name for the Australian rocket frog, Litoria nasuta, known for leaping distances up to fifty times its own body length. This 2012 Perth Mint issue belongs to a Young Collectors series designed explicitly to bring children into the hobby — pad printing rather than traditional relief allowed for full-color surface decoration without the tooling costs of a standard proof. The technique applies ink directly to the coin's face under pressure, a process borrowed from industrial manufacturing and still relatively novel in Australian commemorative production at the time of issue.