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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - 50th Anniversary of Play School, Humpty
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Weight | 15.55 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a full-colour pad-printed design commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Australian children's television programme Play School. At centre, the beloved soft-toy character Humpty is depicted in colourful detail, holding a bunch of three balloons in blue, yellow, and red against a stylised wooden-panel background. The programme's name appears in multi-coloured block letters arranged in two rows reading PLAY SCHOOL, with the inscription 50 YEARS OF arcing above in the upper field. Cloud motifs occupy the left and right fields, and the denomination numeral 50 is boldly incused in the lower right field. |
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Play School debuted on Australian television in July 1966, making 2016 the program's fiftieth year on air — a run that makes it one of the longest continuously broadcast children's programs in the world. The Royal Australian Mint's use of pad printing on circulating coinage was still relatively novel at this point; the technique applies ink directly onto the coin's surface, allowing colour reproduction impossible through conventional die-striking alone.