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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Year of the Dragon - Silver Bullion Coin
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ian Rank-Broadley |
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| Obverse description | The fourth crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II faces right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara. The portrait, modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley, is rendered in fine relief against a plain field. The legend ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 50 CENTS encircles the effigy, with the engraver's initials IRB appearing below the truncation. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Australia's Lunar Series I launched in 1996 as the Royal Australian Mint's direct challenge to the Perth Mint's dominant bullion program — an internal rivalry within the same country's minting infrastructure that few buyers appreciated at the time. The Year of the Dragon issue landed in 2000, the most commercially coveted animal in the twelve-year cycle, and demand from Southeast Asian buyers pushed this particular release well beyond typical annual figures for the series.
KM#522 is the half-ounce denomination within a multi-coin release that year, a detail worth noting when cross-referencing against the one-ounce KM#523.