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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 3rd Portrait
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 1985-2019 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The Commonwealth of Australia Coat of Arms is centrally displayed, supported on the dexter side by a kangaroo and on the sinister side by an emu, both rendered in fine relief against a decorative background of native wattle foliage. The quartered shield depicts the badges of the six Australian states, surmounted by a seven-pointed Commonwealth Star. The large numeral 50 appears prominently in the lower field, with the engraver's initials SD (Stuart Devlin) visible at the base of the design. |
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| Mintage | 1985 - BU Year Set - 170,000 1985 - Circulation - 1,000,000 1985 - Proof Year Set - 74,089 1986 - BU Year Set - 180,000 1986 - Proof Year Set - 67,000 1987 - BU Year Set - 200,000 1987 - Proof Year Set - 69,684 1988 - Mule - Mintage unknown - 1989 - BU Year Set - 150,602 1989 - Proof Set Sydney International Coin Fair - 5,000 1989 - Proof Year Set - 67,618 1990 - BU Year Set - 103,766 1990 - Proof Set - Sydney International Coin Fair - 1,985 1990 - Proof Year Set - 51,015 1992 - BU Year Set - 118,528 1992 - Proof Year Set - 56,367 1993 - BU Gumnut Baby Set (Revised Artwork) - 11,000 1993 - BU Gumnut Baby Set (Wrong Artwork) - 16,000 1993 - BU Year Set - 86,068 1993 - Circulation - 982,800 1993 - Proof Year Set - 40,255 1996 - BU Gumnut Baby Set - 25,727 1996 - BU Year Set - 108,773 1996 - Circulation - 19,296,800 1996 - Proof Gumnut Baby Set - 3,985 1996 - Proof Year Set - 33,350 1997 - BU Gumnut Baby Set - 27,421 1997 - BU Year Set - 71,022 1997 - Circulation - 4,337,200 1997 - Proof Gumnut Baby Set - 3,617 1997 - Proof Year Set - 32,543 2019 - BU 50th Anniversary of Dodegagon 50c - 12,970 |
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Australia's dodecagonal fifty-cent piece has the unusual distinction of being the largest-denomination coin in circulation that costs more in raw metal than its face value — a problem that emerged with the original 1966 silver fifty-cent and prompted the switch to copper-nickel within two years. The twelve-sided format, retained from that 1966 introduction, was chosen partly to assist vision-impaired users in distinguishing it from round coins.
The third portrait by Raphael Maklouf was adopted across Commonwealth coinage from 1985 following the standard rotation of effigies that occurs roughly every fifteen years.