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150 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Sturts Desert Rose - Gold Proof
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Thickness | 2.5 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2002 IRB |
| Reverse description | A finely detailed botanical composition of Sturt's Desert Rose (Gossypium sturtianum), the floral emblem of the Northern Territory, rendered in high relief against a mirror-proof field. Four blooms with prominent petals and staminal columns are depicted on branching stems with leaves, occupying the central and upper portions of the design. The denomination 150 DOLLARS is inscribed in relief along the lower arc of the field, within a scalloped inner border. A small designer's mark appears to the right of the central floral grouping. |
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Sturt's Desert Rose — correctly Gossypium sturtianum, named for the explorer Charles Sturt — was adopted as the floral emblem of the Northern Territory in 1961. The Royal Australian Mint's floral emblem series ran through the early 2000s, issuing a $150 gold proof for each state and territory emblem, with this piece representing the NT's contribution to that set.
Ian Rank-Broadley's fourth portrait of Elizabeth II, introduced in 1998, appears here in its earliest decade of Australian gold proof usage.