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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Victory in the Pacific
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#3420 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC P TV 1945 |
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Victory in the Pacific Day — marked in Australia on August 15 — carries a different weight than VJ Day does in North American memory. Australia lost over 17,000 prisoners of war to Japanese captivity, a mortality rate approaching 36 percent, the highest of any Allied nation holding POWs in the Pacific theater. The Perth Mint has returned to this subject across multiple formats and metals, but the platinum issues remain the low-mintage outliers in those runs.
KM#3420 was struck in .9995 fine platinum — fractionally purer than the more common .9990 standard.