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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Year of the Tiger - Silver Bullion Coin - Colored
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ian Rank-Broadley |
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| Obverse description | The fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank-Broadley faces right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara. The legend ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA encircles the upper portion of the field, while the lower field bears the inscription IRB 1/2 oz 999 SILVER 2010 50 CENTS, denoting the designer's initials, silver purity, weight, date, and face value. The portrait is rendered in high relief with fine detail characteristic of Rank-Broadley's coinage work. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The 2010 Year of the Tiger issue marks the final year of the first 12-year lunar cycle Perth Mint produced in this smaller bullion format before restructuring the series. The Tiger year held particular commercial weight for the mint's Asian export market — China's booming collector base in the late 2000s had transformed Australian lunar issues from novelty releases into a primary revenue stream, with secondary market premiums routinely exceeding face value by orders of magnitude.
The pad-printing process used for colorization on this series was applied post-strike, leaving the color layer technically removable — a point of ongoing debate among registry set collectors about whether colored and uncolored examples should compete in the same population categories.