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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Mendelssohn
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem and a pearl necklace, after the third definitive portrait by Raphael David Maklouf. The legend QUEEN ELIZABETH II arcs across the upper field, while the denomination 1 DOLLAR and the issuer TUVALU appear in the lower field, flanking the portrait. The date 2009 is positioned to the lower right. The engraver's initials RDM appear below the truncation of the bust. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished proof field. |
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| Mintage | 2009 P - Proof - 5,000 |
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This piece belongs to Perth Mint's long-running series commemorating composers, issued under Australia's legal tender framework. Felix Mendelssohn's connection to the Southern Hemisphere is essentially nonexistent, which makes the series more a commercial proposition for the international silver bullion market than any exercise in national memory — Perth Mint has been explicit about targeting collector demographics in Europe and North America with exactly this kind of culturally portable subject matter.
KM# 128 cross-references place this within a tightly grouped run of similar issues from the same year, all sharing the same planchet specification.