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50 Cents - Charles III 1st Portrait - Festive Florals - Christmas 2025, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a polychrome coloured composition centred on a stylised Christmas bauble formed from a Queensland Christmas orchid (Calanthe triplicata), rendered in an ornate Art Nouveau style. The bauble is suspended by a decorative ribbon and surrounded by an elaborate symmetrical arrangement of floral embellishments, foliage, and curvilinear botanical motifs characteristic of the Art Nouveau movement. The design is executed in vivid applied colour against a proof-finished silver ground. The date 2025 and a small mintmark appear in the lower portion of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2025 A |
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The Royal Australian Mint has issued annual Christmas-themed fifty cent pieces since the 1990s, a series driven almost entirely by the gift and collector market rather than any circulation requirement. Australia's fifty cent coin has not been economically practical for everyday transactions in decades — it is, by most retail measures, an inconvenient denomination — which has quietly shifted the entire series toward commemorative production from the outset.
This 2025 issue marks the first Christmas release to feature the Ian Rank-Broadley replacement portrait of Charles III adopted by the RAM following the 2023 transition pieces.