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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Australians at War - Korean War
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Diameter | 31.51 mm |
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| Obverse description | The fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicted in right-facing profile wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara. The truncation of the bust is inscribed with the engraver's initials IRB. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II to the left and AUSTRALIA 2016 to the right, all in raised Latin lettering within the dodecagonal field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Released as part of the Royal Australian Mint's broader Australians at War series, this piece marks Australia's involvement in a conflict that remains politically awkward in the national memory — 17,000 Australians served, 340 died, and the peninsula ended the war divided almost exactly where it began in 1950. The pad-printing process, applied over a standard copper-nickel planchet, was adopted by the RAM during this period to achieve full-colour surface detail without resorting to a separate enamel inlay or cloisonné technique.
Pad printing on circulating-format coins introduces adhesion concerns over time; examples that have seen any pocket wear tend to show colour loss at the edges of the printed zone first.