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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 6th Portrait - 100 Years RAAF - Lockheed C-130 Hercules
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Weight | 15.55 g |
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| Obverse description | The sixth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Jody Clark, depicting a right-facing crowned bust of Her Majesty wearing the George IV State Diadem and the Victorian Coronation Necklace. The portrait is rendered in fine relief against a plain field. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2021 50 CENTS, with the engraver's initials JC appearing below the bust truncation. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The RAAF's C-130 Hercules fleet entered Australian service in 1958 and logged decades of unglamorous but operationally critical work — cyclone relief, Antarctic resupply, and the 1975 Saigon evacuation among them. This coin is one of a series issued across 2021 marking the centenary of the RAAF, with individual releases tied to specific aircraft types that defined the service's history. The pad-printing process, applied over a standard copper-nickel blank, allows colour reproduction that conventional die striking cannot achieve — a technique the Royal Australian Mint began deploying more extensively in the 2010s for commemorative circulation issues.