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50 Pence - Elizabeth II Visit to Australia
| Issuer | Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse lettering | QUEEN ELIZABETH II · 2002 · FALKLAND ISLANDS · 50 PENCE · |
| Reverse description | Within a central circular frame, a scene depicting Queen Elizabeth II standing and engaging with two Aboriginal Australians; the Queen is shown wearing a hat and dress, receiving or exchanging an item with an Aboriginal figure adorned in traditional feathered headdress and grass skirt, while a second figure kneels in the foreground. A decorative arc of stylised Aboriginal boomerangs frames the upper portion of the field outside the central circle. The inscription VISIT TO AUSTRALIA appears along the lower periphery in large raised letters. |
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The Falkland Islands issued this piece to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee tour, a visit that carried particular political weight for the islands — sovereignty over the Falklands had been forcibly reasserted just two decades earlier at the cost of 255 British military lives. The connection between the Crown and the islanders is not ceremonial sentiment but a matter of concrete recent history.
KM#91 is one of several commemoratives in the Jubilee series issued by the Falklands that year, each tied to a specific destination on the royal itinerary.