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20 Cents Charles III, 1st Portrait - Where is the Green Sheep
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Weight | 11.3 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF WHERE IS THE GREEN SHEEP? 20 |
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Issued as part of the Royal Australian Mint's ongoing coloured circulation-format novelty program, this piece belongs to a series celebrating the Merino sheep's role in Australian agricultural history. The Merino was first brought to Australia in 1797 via a consignment arranged by Captain John Macarthur, whose subsequent wool-breeding program at Camden Park laid the commercial foundation for what became the country's dominant export industry through the nineteenth century. Pad printing — a transfer-based ink process borrowed from industrial manufacturing — allows colour application to cupronickel without altering the coin's legal tender status.