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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Finale - Year of the Outback
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Weight | 36.31 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a striking composite design celebrating Australia's outback landscape, divided into two registers. The upper half of the field contains a semicircular holographic insert depicting Uluru and the Kata Tjuta formation bathed in warm golden and red hues beneath a luminescent sky, creating a vivid iridescent effect. The lower half of the field is rendered in sculpted frosted relief, portraying the rugged sandstone escarpments and outback terrain with a sparse tree and eroded rock formations in the foreground. The inscription 'YEAR OF THE OUTBACK' is incuse along the lower rim in capital letters. |
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The "Year of the Outback" was an Australian government initiative running throughout 2002, designed to draw attention to rural and remote communities that had endured years of prolonged drought and economic decline. This coin was the final release in a collector series tied to that campaign — hence "Finale" in the designation.
The Royal Australian Mint issued several silver commemoratives under the Year of the Outback umbrella, each with tightly controlled mintages aimed squarely at the collector market rather than circulation.