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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 3rd Portrait - John McDouall Stuart - Masterpieces in Silver
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central bust of the explorer John McDouall Stuart facing slightly right, superimposed over a partial cartographic map delineating the regions of the Northern Territory and South Australia, commemorating his pioneering overland expeditions. The explorer's name JOHN McDOUALL STUART is inscribed in the field, with the denomination 5 DOLLARS appearing below, and the territorial abbreviations NT and SA flanking the map. The initials VG, denoting the designer Vladimir Gottwald, appear in the lower field. |
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| Reverse lettering | NT SA John McDouall Stuart 5 DOLLARS VG |
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John McDouall Stuart completed the first successful south-to-north crossing of the Australian continent in 1862, reaching the northern coast near present-day Darwin on his sixth and final expedition into the interior. The crossing nearly killed him — he returned to Adelaide blind in one eye and so debilitated he had to be carried on a stretcher. He died in London four years later, largely destitute, having received none of the £2,000 prize money awarded for the crossing.
This issue belongs to the RAM's early 1990s "Masterpieces in Silver" program, which paired proof-quality strikes with notable Australian historical figures largely overlooked by regular coinage.