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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - 'Town Halls' Melbourne Town Hall
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Thickness | 2.3 mm |
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| Reverse description | A detailed architectural rendering of Melbourne Town Hall depicted from a low angled perspective, with the prominent multi-tiered clock tower rising centrally toward the upper field. The colonnaded facade and flanking wings of the Neo-Classical building are rendered in fine relief, with foliage visible to the lower right. The legend MELBOURNE TOWN HALL arcs along the upper periphery, the denomination FIVE DOLLARS appears in two lines to the left of the tower, and the designer's initials AM are incused in the lower right field. |
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| Edge | Milled |
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The 2012 'Town Halls' series was part of a broader Royal Australian Mint program celebrating significant civic architecture across Australian capital cities. Melbourne Town Hall, opened in 1870 and significantly expanded in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, served as the site where The Beatles famously addressed an estimated 300,000 people from the balcony in 1964 — still one of the largest public gatherings in Melbourne's history. The antiqued finish was applied deliberately to evoke the aged stonework of the building itself.