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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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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | QUARTER OZ· THE DUMP· 999 SILVER · 1989 · |
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The "Dump" design revives the name given to the small silver disc punched from the centre of Spanish colonial eight-real pieces during the 1813 currency crisis in New South Wales — an emergency measure by Governor Macquarie when the colony faced a chronic coin shortage. The original dumps were counterstamped and given a face value of fifteen pence. This 1989 issue belongs to the RAM's ongoing program of releasing legal-tender silver coins in the original dump's approximate dimensions.