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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 6th Portrait - QANTAS, Fysh and McGinness
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features pad-printed colour highlighting a central concentric design element bearing the red, white, and dark blue livery stripes of QANTAS. Within this inner field, two forward-facing portrait busts of Sir Hudson Fysh (left) and Paul McGinness (right) are rendered in high relief, both dressed in military aviator uniforms with wings insignia visible. The date range 1920 - 2020 appears vertically to the left of the portraits, commemorating the centenary of QANTAS. A circular vignette in the lower right depicts the original QANTAS hangar building. The legend SIR HUDSON FYSH & PAUL MCGINNESS arches along the upper periphery, with QANTAS inscribed in bold letters at the base, accompanied by the engraver's initials SMS. |
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| Edge | Segmented reeding |
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Issued to mark the centenary of QANTAS, founded in Winton, Queensland in 1920 by Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness — two former Australian Flying Corps pilots who had recently surveyed a potential mail route across the outback on horseback. The airline's full name, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services, was itself a compromise; early backers wanted operations focused on western Queensland, not the vast northern interior the founders envisioned.
The pad-printed colour application on circulating dollar coinage was a technology the Royal Australian Mint had been refining since the mid-2000s, allowing commemorative detail without the cost of a collector finish.