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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 3rd Portrait - Masterpieces in Silver - Brisbane Commonwealth Games
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Value | 50 Cents |
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| Obverse description | Third portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara and a pearl drop earring with pearl necklace, as modelled by Raphael David Maklouf. The truncation of the bust is visible at the lower centre of the field, bearing the engraver's initials RDM. The legend ELIZABETH II curves along the upper left periphery, AUSTRALIA along the upper right, and the date 1989 is positioned at the lower right, all rendered in raised Latin characters against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 1989 |
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Issued to mark the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games — seven years after the fact — this piece belongs to the Royal Australian Mint's "Masterpieces in Silver" subscription series, which repackaged existing and commemorative designs in sterling for the collector market rather than circulation. The series was commercially driven, targeting the growing 1980s coin collecting boom in Australia.
The KM#130 attribution places it firmly outside the standard decimal currency sequence.