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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Royal Flying Doctor Service - Proof
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | The fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II faces right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara. The legend ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 1998 encircles the effigy, with the engraver's initials IRB appearing below the truncation of the bust. The design is rendered in the refined style introduced by Ian Rank-Broadley for Australian coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Royal Flying Doctor Service was founded in 1928 by John Flynn, a Presbyterian minister who spent years lobbying for what he called "a mantle of safety" over the Australian interior — a phrase that became foundational to the organisation's identity. By 1998, its seventieth anniversary, the RFDS was operating across roughly 7.69 million square kilometres of remote territory. The Mint issued this proof to mark that milestone.
Aluminium bronze proofs from this period are notoriously difficult to strike cleanly — the alloy's hardness causes die wear faster than silver, and the deep mirror fields demanded for proof finish compound the problem.