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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Dame Edna Everage
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The central field features a vivid full-colour pad-printed portrait of Dame Edna Everage, the flamboyant fictional character created by Australian comedian Barry Humphries, depicted with her signature voluminous purple hair, ornate rhinestone-studded cat-eye spectacles, and a warm smile. The portrait is set within a smooth circular inner zone, surrounded by a decorative border of incuse geometric diamond-pattern motifs on the aluminium bronze ground. The legend DAME EDNA EVERAGE arcs across the upper border, while 50TH ANNIVERSARY and the dates 1956 and 2006 are inscribed along the lower border, commemorating the character's fifty-year anniversary. |
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Dame Edna Everage is, of course, a fictional character — the suburban Melbourne housewife-turned-global-celebrity created by comedian Barry Humphries. The Royal Australian Mint's decision to place her alongside actual historical figures in the "Legends of Australia" 50-cent series sparked genuine debate about whether a made-up person belonged on legal tender at all. Humphries himself found it amusing.
The pad-printing technique used for colorization was still relatively new to Australian coinage in 2006, applied directly to the struck aluminium bronze blank.