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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II 6th Portrait
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2019-2023 |
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| Weight | 6.6 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2019 JC |
| Reverse description | Left-facing bust of an Aboriginal elder with a full beard, rendered in bold high relief occupying the left portion of the field, a design based on the original artwork by Horst Hahne introduced in 1988. To the upper right, five five-pointed stars arranged in the pattern of the Southern Cross constellation are struck in relief against the flat field. The large numeral 2 appears centrally to the right, accompanied by a stylised Banksia flower and foliage at lower right. The denomination legend DOLLARS is inscribed in upright Latin capitals along the lower portion of the field. |
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The sixth portrait of Elizabeth II, sculpted by Jody Clark, was introduced to Australian coinage in 2019 — making Australia one of the later Commonwealth nations to adopt it, some four years after the portrait debuted on UK coinage in 2015. Clark was the first Royal Mint staff engraver to produce an effigy of the monarch since Mary Gillick's portrait in 1953, selected through an internal competition rather than the traditional external commission process.
Production spanned the period of Elizabeth II's death in September 2022, meaning examples struck through 2023 continued using her effigy under transition arrangements before the Charles III portrait entered circulation.