5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Sunda Strait

5 Dollars - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Sunda Strait) - obverse5 Dollars - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Sunda Strait) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Australia
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type Non-circulating coin
Year 2002
Value 5 Dollars
5 AUD = USD 3.26
Currency Dollar (1966-date)
Composition Bimetallic: aluminium bronze centre in stainless steel ring
Weight 10.6 g
Diameter 28 mm
Thickness 2.4 mm
Shape Icositetragonal (24-sided)
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
14161
References KM# 601
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.

Commemorative issue

60th Anniversary of the Battle of Sunda Strait

Obverse

4th portrait of Queen Elizabeth II facing right wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2002
IRB

Designer: Ian Rank-Broadley

Reverse

"U.S.S. HOUSTON" written on a bell

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BATTLE OF SUNDA STRAIT
1942 USS HOUSTON HMAS PERTH 2002
5 DOLLARS
U.S.S.
HOUSTON
1930

Designer: Royal Australian Mint

Edge

Smooth 24-sided

5 Dollars - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Sunda Strait) -  obverse

© Mike Bentley (CC BY-NC)

Mint

Royal Australian Mint, Canberra, Australia (1965-date)

Comments

This is the fifth NCLT Bi-Metalic coin struck by the RAM and released in a coincard in 2002 to Commemorate 60 years since the Battle of Sunda Strait which occurred on 28th of February and 1st of March 1942.
It was available in one coincard that has two different slip cases, one for HMAS Perth and another for U.S.S. Houston.

 Front of HMAS Perth Slipcard

Front of USS Houston Slipcard

Rear of both Slipcards

Front of Coincard

Rear of Coincard


The link below will take you to the different design Aluminium-bronze Proof Coin commemorating the same WWII event.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
2002  40 983 $ 8.10 BU in Coincard

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