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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Rugby World Cup
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Diameter | 38.74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the fourth portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicting the Queen wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara. The truncation of the bust bears the engraver's initials IRB. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II to the upper left and AUSTRALIA 2003 to the right, all in raised Latin characters against a flat field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Australia hosted the 2003 Rugby World Cup — the tournament in which the Wallabies, as defending champions, were eliminated in the semi-finals by England, who went on to win the final in extra time with Jonny Wilkinson's drop goal. The RAM issued this coin as a commemorative ahead of that tournament, part of a broader pattern of Australian sporting commemoratives that accelerated through the late 1990s and early 2000s. Aluminium bronze was the standard circulating five-dollar composition at the time, meaning this piece was technically legal tender at face value rather than a collector-only issue.