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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - 10 - Ford XC Falcon Cobra
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#3356 |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2017 IRB |
| Reverse description | A pad-printed full-colour depiction of a 1978 Ford XC Falcon Cobra coupe in white with a blue stripe, rendered against a blue background at the centre of the coin. The design forms part of the Ford Australian Classics series, celebrating iconic Australian-built vehicles. The vehicle is shown in three-quarter profile, highlighting the distinctive Cobra livery and muscle car styling of the era. The legend FORD AUSTRALIAN CLASSICS arcs around the upper periphery, with 50, 8 CYLINDER, XC FALCON COBRA, and 1978 inscribed in the field and lower periphery. |
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Part of the Royal Australian Mint's long-running Classic Australian Cars series, this piece commemorates the XC Falcon Cobra — a factory muscle package Ford Australia released in 1977 to counter Holden's Torana A9X on the touring car circuit. Homologation requirements meant a street version had to exist, and the resulting Cobra option package, available on the XC hardtop, became one of the most aggressively optioned Falcons of the decade.
The pad-printing process — a form of indirect offset printing onto the coin's surface — allows full-color reproduction impossible through conventional die-striking, a technique the RAM adopted for this series to capture automotive livery detail.