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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - The Earth - Silver Domed
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Reverse description | Convex surface featuring a vivid coloured depiction of the Earth as viewed from space, rendered in blue and white tones evoking cloud formations and continental masses. The date 2018 appears above the central globe and the denomination FIVE DOLLARS below. The names of the atmospheric layers — TROPOSPHERE, STRATOSPHERE, MESOSPHERE, THERMOSPHERE, and EXOSPHERE — are inscribed around the periphery, with the series title THE EARTH AND BEYOND - THE EARTH completing the legend. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2018 THE EARTH AND BEYOND - THE EARTH TROPOSPHERE STRATOSPHERE MESOSPHERE THERMOSPHERE EXOSPHERE FIVE DOLLARS |
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The Royal Australian Mint's domed silver series has produced some of the more technically demanding strikes in contemporary Australian coinage, requiring purpose-built presses capable of imparting a concave/convex form without cracking the planchet. This "The Earth" issue from 2018 sits within a run of astronomically themed domed coins that began gaining serious collector traction after earlier planetary releases sold out rapidly at issue price.
The domed format was pioneered at scale by the Perth Mint before Canberra adopted it — a quiet institutional rivalry worth noting when cataloging RAM versus Perth issues of the same period.