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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Year of the Dragon - Silver Bullion Coin - Colourised
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Weight | 15.59 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a vibrant pad-printed colourised design of a traditional Chinese dragon rendered in rich red and orange hues, its sinuous body coiling dynamically across the field as it pursues a luminous pearl at lower right. Stylised clouds frame the composition in the background. The Chinese character 龍 (dragon) appears in the upper right field, accompanied by the Perth Mint's P mintmark. The legend 'Year of the Dragon' is inscribed in an elegant script along the lower field. |
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Australia's lunar coin program, administered by the Perth Mint, follows a twelve-year cycle tied to the Chinese zodiac — 2012 marking the second time the Dragon had appeared in the series since its 1996 launch. The colourised variant designated KM#1663a was produced alongside a standard uncolourised issue, with the pad-printing applied after striking, a process the Perth Mint refined through the 2000s to achieve registration precise enough for collector-grade production.