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2 Dollars - Charles III 1st Portrait - Emu Utingat Silver Antiqued Coloured
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Diameter | 50.8 mm |
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| Obverse description | Uncrowned effigy of King Charles III facing left, rendered in high relief with fine portrait detail including naturalistic hair and collar, as designed by Dominic Thomas. Two raised dots flank the effigy at mid-field. The upper legend arcs CHARLES III AUSTRALIA around the portrait, while the lower field carries the inscriptions 2oz 9999 Ag and 2 DOLLARS. The engraver's initials DT appear discreetly at the truncation of the bust. The entire obverse is struck with an antique finish, imparting a brushed, aged appearance to the field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The emu's taxonomic name, Dromaius novaehollandiae, was assigned by the French naturalist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816 — three decades after the bird had already become a practical problem for early colonial settlers, who found it nearly impossible to fence out of crops. The species later achieved a grimly comic footnote in military history when the Australian Army's 1932 campaign to cull overrunning emu populations in Western Australia was abandoned after soldiers expended thousands of rounds to negligible effect, an episode now routinely filed under "Major Peter Campbell's Emu War."
Charles III's effigy appearing here marks the first portrait transition for Australian coinage since Elizabeth II's death in September 2022.