50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - 1915 Bravest of the Brave

Issued to mark the centenary of Gallipoli, this coin commemorates the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing of 25 April 1915 — a campaign conceived by Winston Churchill as a way to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war and open a supply route to Russia. It failed catastrophically. Of the roughly 8,700 Australians killed at Gallipoli, many were aged under twenty. The phrase "Bravest of the Brave" draws from the reverence embedded in Australian national memory, where the ANZAC legend became arguably the country's most durable founding myth.

The pad-printing process used here deposits color directly onto the coin's surface without separate enamel inlays — a relatively recent production technique the Perth Mint adopted to enable more detailed commemorative imagery on smaller diameter pieces.