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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Australian Open Tennis 1905 - 2005
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Composition | Aluminium bronze (92% Copper, 6% Aluminium, 2% Nickel) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A tennis player is depicted in dynamic pose at the moment of service, the figure rendered in bold relief against a stylised background of angled lines representing a tennis court. The Melbourne city skyline is visible in the background, evoking the tournament's location. The commemorative dates 1905 and 2005, flanking the centenary of the Australian Open, appear in the upper field above the central design. The legend AUSTRALIAN OPEN arcs prominently across the coin in tribute to the tournament's one-hundredth anniversary. |
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The Australian Open's centenary in 2005 marked a hundred years from the first Australasian Championships, held in Melbourne in 1905 with a field of seventeen players. The tournament wouldn't adopt its current name until 1969, and didn't settle permanently at Melbourne Park until 1988 — meaning the "Australian Open" being celebrated here had existed under that name for less than four decades.
Aluminium bronze circulation commemoratives of this type were produced in relatively large numbers for the Royal Australian Mint's collector market, and most survive in original mint state.