1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Unlikely Heroes - Blue Chequer Cock
Features
| Issuer |
Australia
 |
|---|---|
| Queen |
Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
|
| Type | Non-circulating coins |
| Year | 2015 |
| Value | 1 Dollar 1 AUD = USD 0.71 |
| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
| Composition | Aluminium bronze (92% Copper, 6% Aluminium, 2% Nickel, Pad Printed) |
| Weight | 9 g |
| Diameter | 25 mm |
| Thickness | 2.5 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Coloured, Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Number | N# 78037 |
| References | KM# 3018 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). |
Commemorative issue
Blue Chequer Cock
Series: Unlikely Heroes Great & Small
Obverse
4th portrait of Queen Elizabeth II facing right wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara
Script: Latin
Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2015
1 DOLLAR
IRB
Designer: Ian Rank-Broadley
Reverse
A Blue Chequer Cock or Carrier Pigeon surrounded by blue sky.
Edge
7 shorter smooth segments between 7 reeded segments (11 grooves each)
© brismike (CC BY-NC)
Mint
Royal Australian Mint, Canberra, Australia (1965-date)Comments
This NCLT Aluminium-bronze $1 coloured coin was released in a coincard by the RAM in 2015 as part of a six coin series of ANZAC themed Animals at War coins. Mintage to be confirmed but capped at 30,000.
Pigeons have been unsung heroes of many conflicts, carrying messages across battlefields when aeroplanes, radios and human feet would have been too easily detected by the enemy. The soldiers needed help, but their radio had failed. With pigeon power their only hope; DD.43.Q.879 had to face the danger when two other pigeons had already been shot down. Against the odds, he reached HQ with this important message, and help was dispatched to save the patrol. ‘Q’ served with the Australian Army in 1944, and was awarded the Dickin Medal for “conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty”.
See also
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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Unlikely Heroes - Feline Mascot HMAS Encounter)
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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Unlikely Heroes - Horrie the Dog)
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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Unlikely Heroes - Murphy the Donkey)
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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Unlikely Heroes - Sandy the War Horse)
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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Unlikely Heroes - Shake the Kangaroo)
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| Date | Mintage | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 2015 | 30 000 | $ 18 | BU in Coincard | ||||||||||||
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