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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 3rd Portrait - The Enfranchisement of Women
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | The third effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, as modelled by Raphael David Maklouf, faces right wearing the King George IV State Diadem. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs above, with AUSTRALIA and the date 1994 below, flanked by the engraver's initials RDM at the lower right of the portrait. The design is set within the inner aluminium bronze disc of the bimetallic flan, with the sovereign's bust occupying the central field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a portrait of Mary Lee (1821–1909), the prominent South Australian suffragist and co-founder of the Women's Suffrage League, depicted at centre within the aluminium bronze core. Surrounding the portrait, inscriptions commemorate the centenary of the 1894 South Australian Constitutional Amendment Act, which granted women the right to vote and stand for parliament. Text referencing the Women's Suffrage League, political equality, and the democratic principles of the movement radiates through the field and into the outer stainless steel ring. The denomination 5 DOLLARS appears in the lower portion of the design, and dual dates 1894 and 1994 flank the composition to mark the 100-year anniversary. |
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The 1994 Australian five-dollar coin marks the centenary of women's suffrage in South Australia, which in 1894 became the first place in the world to grant women both the right to vote and the right to stand for parliament — a distinction that separated it from New Zealand's better-known 1893 precedent. The bimetallic format was still relatively new to Australian circulation at the time, having been introduced only in 1988.