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25 Cents - Elizabeth II 3rd Portrait - The Dump
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Weight | 7.775 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, as modelled by Raphael Maklouf for the third definitive portrait. The truncated bust is rendered in high relief against a deeply recessed, mirror-polished field. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper left periphery, AUSTRALIA along the upper right, and the denomination 25 CENTS appears at the base. The design is bordered by a finely executed inner ring of beads. |
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| Reverse description | Central sunken cartouche displays a stylised, primitively rendered human figure in full length, evoking the crude engraving style of early colonial-era Australian dump coinage. This raised inner disk is set against a deeply recessed annular field bearing the circular legend QUARTER OZ· THE DUMP· 999 SILVER, with the date 1989 appearing at the base. The entire composition is framed by an inner and outer bead border, reflecting the historical reference to the holed Spanish silver dollar dumps used in early New South Wales. The reverse was designed by Stuart Devlin. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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