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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Ford High Octane - 1977 XC Falcon Hardtop
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#3455 |
| Obverse description | The fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, designed by Ian Rank-Broadley, faces right wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara. The queen's portrait is rendered in high relief against a flat field. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2018, with the designer's initials IRB truncated below the portrait. The inscription is presented in Roman capital letters following the arc of the coin's dodecagonal border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The 1977 XC Falcon Hardtop occupies a specific and contested place in Australian automotive history — Ford Australia produced it for just one model year, and the hardtop body style was discontinued almost immediately after. The "High Octane" series from the Royal Australian Mint pairs these culturally loaded vehicles with a pad-printing process that applies colour directly to the coin's surface, a technique the Mint has leaned on heavily since the 2010s for its collectibles program.
The XC generation was also the last Falcon to offer a genuine factory-built hardtop in Australia.