2 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Australian Peacekeepers - AusAID

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.