50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - 07 - Ford XY Falcon GT-HO

The XY GT-HO Phase III, released in 1971, was clocked at 227 km/h during testing at Bathurst — making it the fastest production sedan in the world at the time. That record, and the car's dominance in touring car racing, alarmed the Australian government sufficiently to trigger the "supercar scare" of 1972, a parliamentary inquiry that effectively killed the high-performance Falcon program before a Phase IV could reach production. Ford Australia destroyed the Phase IV prototypes rather than face regulatory consequences.

Pad printing on circulating-format coinage remains relatively rare; the colour application adds manufacturing complexity that standard cupro-nickel blanking does not require.