5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - 50th Anniversary of The Battle of Long Tan

5 Dollars - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - 50th Anniversary of The Battle of Long Tan) - obverse5 Dollars - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - 50th Anniversary of The Battle of Long Tan) - reverse

Obverse © Mike Bentley (CC BY-NC)

Features

Issuer Australia
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type Non-circulating coin
Year 2016
Value 5 Dollars
5 AUD = USD 3.25
Currency Dollar (1966-date)
Composition Aluminium bronze (92% Copper, 6% Aluminium, 2% Nickel)
Weight 20.00 g
Diameter 38.74 mm
Thickness 2.3 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
90587
References KM# 3269
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

50th Anniversary of The Battle of Long Tan

Obverse

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

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2016
IRB

Designer: Ian Rank-Broadley

Reverse

Depiction of the Cross that was raised in the Long Tan Rubber Tree Plantation. To the left heavy pouring rain

Script: Latin

Lettering:
5 DOLLARS
BATTLE OF LONG TAN 1966

Designer: Tony Dean

Edge

Reeded

5 Dollars - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - 50th Anniversary of The Battle of Long Tan) -  obverse

© Mike Bentley (CC BY-NC)

Mint

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

Comments

This NCLT $5 Aluminium-bronze coin was minted by the RAM to mark 50 years since the Battle of Long Tan. The coin was released in a coincard.


The coin remembers the 108 Australian and New Zealand soldiers that left the Nui Dat Taskforce base on 18 August 1966, unaware of the historic fate that lay before them. They fought a pitched battle against 2,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in the rubber plantation of Long Tan. Eighteen Australians died and Twenty Four were wounded in what was the largest action fought by Australian Forces during the Vietnam War.

The coin features the memorial cross raised in the Long Tan rubber plantation on the third anniversary of the battle. That day, 18 August, became known as Long Tan Day, to later be known as, Vietnam Veterans Day, and has been observed in Australia ever since.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
2016  15 000 BU in Coincard

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