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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - AIATSIS - Colourised
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Thickness | 3 mm |
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| Obverse description | Fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley. The truncated portrait is rendered in high relief against a flat field. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2014, with the engraver's initials IRB appearing below the portrait truncation. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued to mark the rebranding of AIATSIS — the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies — this coin appeared the same year the institute underwent a formal legislative refresh under the AIATSIS Act 2013, which restructured its governance and broadened its mandate for cultural preservation. The pad-printing technique applied to circulating fifty-cent pieces was relatively new to the RAM at this point, having been developed to bring colour to standard cupro-nickel blanks without a dedicated proof process.
KM#2159a distinguishes the colourised version from the plain strikes of the same type.