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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Night Parrot
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II faces right, rendered in the Ian Rank-Broadley style, with the Queen depicted 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 positioned below the effigy. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2019 5 DOLLARS IRB |
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The Night Parrot (*Pezoporus occidentalis*) was so rarely encountered through the 20th century that it was genuinely considered extinct by many ornithologists — no confirmed sighting for nearly a century until a dead specimen turned up in Queensland in 1990. A living bird wasn't photographed until 2013, by naturalist John Young, an event that made international news. The RAM issued this coin six years after that rediscovery, at a point when the species' total population remained effectively unknown.