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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Yak-3
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Raphael David Maklouf, depicting the Queen wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, drop earrings, and a pearl necklace. The truncation bears the designer's initials RDM. The surrounding legend reads QUEEN ELIZABETH II at the top of the field, with 1 DOLLAR to the left and TUVALU 2008 along the lower arc, all rendered in raised Latin lettering against a mirrored proof field. |
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| Reverse lettering | Fighter Planes of WWII YAKOVLEV YAK-3 P |
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The Yak-3 was arguably the finest Soviet fighter of the Second World War at low and medium altitudes — lighter than the Spitfire, faster below 13,000 feet than anything the Luftwaffe could field in 1944. It entered service that year after Yakovlev stripped the earlier Yak-1M down to its essentials, removing the wing-mounted cannon and shaving weight wherever possible. The French Normandie-Niémen volunteer regiment flew it with particular distinction, and at war's end Stalin permitted them to take their aircraft home to France — one of the few times Soviet military hardware was gifted to a Western nation.