50 Cents - Elizabeth II Year of the Dog Gold Plated

Features

Commemorative issue

Lunar Year Series - Year of the Dog ; WMF Issue

Obverse

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

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2018
IRB

Engraver: Ian Rank-Broadley

Reverse

Dog standing at attention in front of a tree, Chinese symbol for Dog at right, Year of issue to the left, Denomination above, Chinese scrolls within partial circles on each corner.

Lettering:
50
2018
YEAR OF THE DOG

Engraver: S. Stojanovic

Edge

12 Sided smooth

Comments

This RAM NCLT coin has been released for the 2018 Berlin World Money Fair. Last year the corresponding coin was a simple Gold Plating of the usual 14 sided 50 cent Lunar Year Coin.

However this year the RAM have changed things around a bit. This time they have reverted to a standard 12 sided planchet and used a different reverse design to the one used on the plain copper nickel 2018 50 cent Lunar Year Coin. (See link below to view the 14 sided 2018 coin)

The reverse design on this release is the same as the reverse design on the 2018 $1 Lunar Year coin. (See link below to see the 2018 $1 coin with same reverse) This coin is fully Gold Plated and was released on a coincard. Mintage is limited to 5000.

There have now been seven yearly releases of the Lunar Year 50 cent coins by the RAM. This is the second WMF Gold Plated edition.

See also

• Dogs and canids
• Chinese calendar

• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (Year of the Dog)
• 1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (Year of the Dog)

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