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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - 1626 A New Map of the World: Western Hemisphere - Silver Domed
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Obverse description | Concave domed effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, rendered in the fourth portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, with the Queen wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2019 5 DOLLARS, with the engraver's initials IRB appearing below the truncation of the bust. The design occupies the concave (inner) face of the domed flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This piece belongs to a series of domed silver dollars issued by the Royal Australian Mint referencing early cartographic history. The 1626 map in question is attributed to John Speed, whose A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World was among the first atlases compiled by an English cartographer — Speed himself had no surveying background and assembled the work largely from Dutch and Flemish sources, a common and accepted practice of the period.
The domed format, achieved through a secondary pressing process, physically echoes the curvature of a globe — a deliberate technical choice rather than novelty for its own sake.