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| Emittent | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Jahr | 2017 |
| Typ | Non-circulating coin |
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| Aversschrift | Latin |
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| Reversbeschreibung | A detailed depiction of a trooper of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade in campaign dress, including slouch hat, shown in close proximity to his horse, both facing right, commemorating the charge at Beersheba in 1917. A coloured red poppy appears to the right of the central design. The curved legend THOSE MARVELLOUS HORSES arcs across the upper field, with the date 1917 inscribed in the right field. |
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The charge at Beersheba on 31 October 1917 — carried out by the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade — is one of the few successful cavalry charges of the First World War, and almost certainly the last decisive one in history. The men rode into Ottoman rifle and artillery fire across roughly five kilometres of open ground, moving fast enough that defending gunners could not accurately calculate a lead distance. They reached the town's wells before the garrison could destroy them, securing water that the entire campaign in the Sinai and Palestine depended upon.
Perth issued this piece in the centenary year of that action, with mintage strictly limited to 2,500.