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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - 11 - Ford XE Falcon Sedan
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel (Pad Printed) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a pad-printed full-colour depiction of a red 1981–1985 Ford XE Falcon Sedan, an iconic Australian-manufactured automobile, set against a stylised orange background applied by the pad printing process over a medallic-style field. The legend FORD AUSTRALIAN CLASSICS is inscribed along the upper periphery, with the denomination 50, engine specification 6 CYLINDER, and model designation XE FALCON 1981-1985 completing the design. This issue forms part of the Royal Australian Mint's Ford Australian Classics series celebrating significant models in Australian automotive history. |
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Part of the Royal Australian Mint's long-running Classic Australian Cars series, this release commemorates the XE Falcon — the last of Ford Australia's inline-six Falcons to be offered with a manual transmission option across the full model range. The XE ran from 1982 to 1984, a period when the domestic market was beginning its slow drift away from large rear-wheel-drive sedans toward imported smaller cars, a shift that would eventually end Australian Falcon production entirely in 2016.
The pad-printing technique used for the colour application was adopted by the RAM to achieve detail levels impossible through conventional enamel inlay.