50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Battle of Amiens

50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Battle of Amiens) - obverse50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Battle of Amiens) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Australia
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type Non-circulating coin
Year 2018
Value 50 Cents
0.50 AUD = USD 0.33
Currency Dollar (1966-date)
Composition Copper-nickel
Weight 15.55 g
Diameter 31.51 mm
Thickness 3 mm
Shape Dodecagonal (12-sided)
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
145799
References KM# 3465
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

Western Front - Battle of Amiens

Obverse

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

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2018
IRB

Designer: Ian Rank-Broadley

Reverse

Australian Soldiers standing by a captured German Tank below the
sky with clouds and birds.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
AMIENS
1918
50
EL

Designer: E. Lewellen

Edge

12 Sided Smooth

50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Battle of Amiens) -  obverse

© Mike Bentley (CC BY-NC)

Mint

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

Comments

The Royal Australian Mint is producing a series of NCLT 50 cent coins to commemorate the Battles of the Western Front that Australian soldiers took a major part in during WW1. They are released on a coin card.


Australia Post also released a PNC containing the coin limited to 7000 Copies


500 of them were released in a special overprinted cover at the Sydney ANDA 2018 Money Expo.


This 2018 coin relates to the action on 8th August 1918 by Australian & Canadian troops who spearheaded the allied counter-offensive from positions east of Villers-Brettonneux and gained over 24 kilometres of German occupied territory. Allied fighters captured 29,144 prisoners, 338 field guns and liberated 116 villages in a single day of fighting. Amiens was a significant allied victory that marked the beginning of the end of fighting on the Western Front.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
2018  13 727 $ 9.80 86% BU in Coincard
2018  7 000 17% BU in PNC
2018  500 6% BU in PNC ANDA Sydney Money Expo

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