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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Student Design - Silver Proof
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Weight | 18.24 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A whimsical student-designed composition occupying the central field depicts three fantastical hybrid creatures combining features of native Australian fauna — a koala-like figure rearing upright and grasping a eucalyptus branch at left, a bird-bodied creature with spread wings perched centrally, and a rabbit-like animal in the lower right foreground. The numeral 50 is rendered in large open digits at the lower centre, serving as the denomination indicator. The designer's initials JS appear in the right field. The design is set against a deeply mirrored proof background, with the smooth twelve-sided rim framing the composition. The legend CENTS appears as part of the peripheral lettering completing the denomination inscription. |
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This piece was part of the Royal Australian Mint's "Celebrate Australia's Future" program, which invited school students to submit reverse designs as a civics and arts initiative. The winning student design was selected from thousands of entries nationwide. It is one of the few Australian legal-tender coins where the reverse carries no professional engraver's work whatsoever.