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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - 90th Anniversary of The Ghan
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2019 |
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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 pad-printed colourised depiction of The Ghan locomotive NR 75 advancing along a railway track, with the train consist visible behind it against a vivid red backdrop. The design commemorates the 90th anniversary of the iconic Australian passenger train, with the date span 1929-2019 prominently displayed. The denomination 50 appears in the lower field, and the legend THE GHAN flanks the locomotive number NR 75 on either side, with the initials TD also present. The colourisation technique renders the scene with notable vibrancy within the angular twelve-sided format. |
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The Ghan began running between Adelaide and Alice Springs in 1929, named after the Afghan cameleers whose animals had served as the primary inland transport before the railway existed. The line didn't reach Darwin until 2004, completing a north-south transcontinental route that engineers had been attempting since the 1870s — earlier alignments repeatedly failed due to flooding in the desert, an embarrassment that delayed the project by decades.
Pad printing on circulating coinage remains relatively uncommon at the RAM; the technique allows color application directly onto the coin blank without a separate insert.