1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Sydney Cove Medallion - Silver Proof - High Relief

1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Sydney Cove Medallion - Silver Proof - High Relief) - obverse1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Sydney Cove Medallion - Silver Proof - High Relief) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Australia
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type Non-circulating coin
Year 2010
Value 1 Dollar
1 AUD = USD 0.65
Currency Dollar (1966-date)
Composition Silver (.999)
Weight 31.1035 g
Diameter 32.6 mm
Thickness 6 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled (high relief)
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
181721
References KM# 1568
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

Sydney Cove Medallion

Obverse

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

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2010
1 DOLLAR
IRB

Designer: Ian Rank-Broadley

Reverse

Depiction of four classical figures on the shores of a bay on which there is a sailing ship. To the left, the female figure Hope stands on a rock before an anchor. She extends her right hand to the female figure of Peace, who has a horn of plenty at her feet and an olive branch in her hand. Art, also a female, who is holding an artist's palette, and Labour, a male figure, who has a sledgehammer over his shoulder. Below the figures is the legend ETRURIA 1789.

Script: Latin

Lettering: ETRURIA 1789

Designer: Josiah Wedgewood

Edge

Reeded

1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Sydney Cove Medallion - Silver Proof - High Relief) -  obverse

Mint

Perth Mint, Australia (1899-date)

Comments

The original Sydney Cove Medallions were made of clay sent back to Britain by Governor Arthur Phillip aboard the Fishburn which returned home in May 1789. Wedgewood received the clay from his friend Sir Joseph Banks, then President of the Royal Society. Wedgewood undertook trials and experiments that confirmed the clay to be "an excellent material for pottery". A limited number of medallions commemorating the settlement at Sydney Cove were created, estimated to be no more than two dozen. Anticipating a positive future for the colony of New South Wales, the Sydney Cove Medallion's allegorical design is titled Hope encouraging Art and Labour under the influence of Peace to pursue the employments necessary to give security and happiness to the infant colony

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
2010  5 000 Proof

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