5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri - Masterpieces in Silver

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was among the founding artists of the Papunya Tula movement, which began in 1971 when a group of Western Desert men started painting their ceremonial sand designs onto composition board at Papunya settlement. The movement transformed Indigenous Australian art from a localised practice into an internationally collected genre within a single decade. Clifford Possum's large-scale narrative canvases were selling at major auction houses by the 1980s, and he was awarded an AM in 2002, less than a year before his death.

The pad-printing process used here applies ink directly onto the coin's surface to reproduce fine detail from his dotwork — a manufacturing choice that distinguishes this issue technically from standard proof strikes in the same series.