1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 3rd Portrait - Howard Florey

1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (3rd Portrait - Howard Florey) - obverse1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (3rd Portrait - Howard Florey) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Australia
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type Non-circulating coin
Year 1998
Value 1 Dollar
1 AUD = USD 0.65
Currency Dollar (1966-date)
Composition Aluminium bronze (92% Copper, 6% Aluminium, 2% Nickel)
Weight 9 g
Diameter 25 mm
Thickness 2.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
12608
References KM# 366
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

100th Annniverary of Howard Florey

Obverse

3rd portrait of Queen Elizabeth II facing right wearing the King George IV State Diadem

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 1998
RDM

Designer: Raphael David Maklouf

Reverse

Howard Florey in surgical garb - Developer of Penicillin (1898-1968)

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1 DOLLAR
C
HOWARD FLOREY CENTENARY

Designer: Vladimir Gottwald

Edge

7 shorter smooth segments between 7 reeded segments (11 grooves each)

1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (3rd Portrait - Howard Florey) -  obverse

© Mike Bentley (CC BY-NC)

Mint

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

Comments

In 1998 the RAM released this NCLT coin celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lord Baron Howard Florey. The coin was available as a MYO (Mint Your Own) coin with a "C" Mintmark in the visitor gallery of the Royal Australian Mint and came with a small coincard to house it.


It was also available from the Mobile Press at various Royal/ANDA Shows as follows:-
Adelaide - "A" Mintmark in a Purple Folder

Brisbane - "B" Mintmark in a Pink Coin Folder

Melbourne - "M" Mintmark in a Pale Yellow Folder

Sydney - "S" Mintmark in a Grey Coin Folder


A version of the coin was also released in .925 Silver in a capsule in a square plush box. The silver version had the, at the time, new Ian Rank Broadly effigy of the Queen on the obverse side

Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1898 Howard Florey is famously known as perhaps Australia's greatest ever scientist and having shared in the discovery of the anti biotic penicillin with Ernst Chain and Alexander Fleming. In fact he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with these gentlemen in 1945 for the discovery and extraction of penicillin.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
1998 A 21 110 $ 6.00 25% Adelaide Mintmark (Adelaide ANDA Show)
1998 B 29 924 $ 10 22% Brisbane Mintmark (Brisbane ANDA Show)
1998 C 77 035 $ 5.40 66% Canberra Mintmark (Gallery Press)
1998 M 21 809 $ 5.60 23% Melbourne Mintmark (Royal Melbourne Show
1998 S 44 080 $ 3.90 31% Sydney Mintmark (Royal Sydney Show)

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