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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Australian Peacekeepers - AusAID
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Weight | 62.207 g |
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| Obverse description | Fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, as designed by Ian Rank-Broadley. The sovereign's bust is draped and faces right in high relief. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2 DOLLARS, with the designer's initials IRB truncated below the portrait. The denomination and issuer appear as part of the circular legend in the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2 DOLLARS IRB |
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AusAID, the Australian government's overseas aid agency, commissioned this issue to mark Australian peacekeeping contributions across the Pacific and Southeast Asia — deployments that by 2005 included East Timor, Bougainville, and the Solomon Islands. The pad-printing technique, applied over the struck silver surface, was still relatively novel in Australian commemorative coinage at the time, allowing color detail that conventional enameling or dies could not achieve at this scale.