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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II First Flying Doctor Service
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is struck in the shape of the Australian continent and features full color applied imagery commemorating the first flight of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in 1928. A portrait of Reverend John Flynn, founder of the service, appears at left, accompanied by a colored depiction of a vintage automobile and a biplane aircraft on an outback airstrip. The inscriptions 1928 FIRST FLIGHT ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE OF AUSTRALIA and REV. JOHN FLYNN are placed within the field against the map-shaped background. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1928 First Flight Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia Rev. John Flynn |
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The Royal Flying Doctor Service, founded in 1928 by John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission, was made operationally possible by Alfred Traeger's invention of the pedal-powered transceiver radio — giving remote stations a means of calling for help without mains electricity. Tuvalu has long issued commemorative silver dollars under licensing arrangements that allow it to produce themed coinage largely for the collector market rather than domestic circulation, a practice common among small Pacific island nations with limited numismatic infrastructure of their own.
The 75th anniversary of the RFDS in 2003 prompted several such issues across the Pacific commemorative market.