1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - HMAS Sydney II

1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - HMAS Sydney II) - obverse1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - HMAS Sydney II) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Australia
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type Non-circulating coin
Year 2000
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#
12610
References KM# 422
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

HMAS Sydney II

Obverse

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

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2000
IRB

Designer: Ian Rank-Broadley

Reverse

Image of the warship "HMAS Sydney II" above waves, denomination below

Script: Latin

Lettering:
HMAS
SYDNEY II
C
VG
1 DOLLAR

Designer: Vladimir Gottwald

Edge

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

1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - HMAS Sydney II) -  obverse

Mint

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

Comments

In 2000 the RAM released this Uncirculated Aluminium-bronze coin to remember those who lost their lives on the HMAS Sydney II. The coin was issued in a coincard at the MYO Public Press Gallery at the RAM with "C" Mintmark. It was also issued at the Mobile Press in a coincard at the Sydney Royal Easter Show with "S" Mintmark.


 At a special function at the launch of the namesake of HMAS Sydney II official figures mention that 2,922 coins were also issued using the Mobile Press with a "S" Mintmark. However only around 300 were actually handed out placed in a special VIP Folder. The remainder were destroyed.

The RAM also issued a Fine Silver (.999) version in limited numbers in a capsule held within a plush square box.

 On 19 November 1941 the HMAS Sydney II sank after heavy combat action with the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran. The Sydney, the second such Australian ship to carry the name, sank with the loss of all 645 crew. It is the largest Australian naval loss on a single Australian warship and was the largest loss of life on an Allied ship in WW2 where all hands were lost. The exact circumstances of the tragic loss remain unclear to this date, and it was only in March 2008 that the wrecks of both the Sydney and Kormoran were located off the coast of Western Australia after many years of fruitless searching.

Two examples are known to have escaped without a Mintmark.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
2000  2 0.6% BU - No Mintmark
2000 C 86 900 $ 5.40 90% BU Canberra Mintmark (MYO Gallery Press)
2000 S 2 922 4% BU In Sets only (300 actually struck, others destroyed)
2000 S 49 002 $ 6.50 27% BU Sydney Mintmark (Royal Sydney Show)

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