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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 6th Portrait - Summer Sun and Surf - Christmas 2021
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 50 Cents |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a stylised Australian summer coastal scene in celebration of Christmas, depicting the surface of the ocean shimmering with light rendered through a combination of frosted and mirror-polished finishes. Cascading seafoam and billowing waves occupy the upper portion of the design, while a garland of bubbles delineates the tidal boundary across textured sand in the lower field. The interplay of frosted and reflective surfaces creates a dynamic optical effect evoking sunlit saltwater. The numeral 50 appears as the sole inscription within the design. |
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The Royal Australian Mint's late-reign commemorative program has produced dozens of themed fifty-cent pieces, and the 2021 Christmas issue is among the more straightforward of them — a dodecagonal circulation-quality coin with no particularly distinguished mintage history or minting anomaly attached to it. The "6th Portrait" designation reflects the updated Jody Clark effigy of Elizabeth II adopted by Australian coinage from 2019 onward, replacing the Ian Rank-Broadley portrait used since 1998.