5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Tennis

Features

Issuer	Australia
Queen	Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type	Non-circulating coins
Year	2000
Value	5 Dollars 5 AUD = USD 3.21
Currency	Dollar (1966-date)
Composition	Aluminium bronze
Weight	20 g
Diameter	38.74 mm
Thickness	3 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 19164
References	KM# 409 Standard Catalog of World Coins (85 volumes).

Commemorative issue

Tennis

Series: 2000 Summer Olympics Sydney

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

Depiction of a Tennis Player about to return the ball with a backhand shot. Small Olympic Rings under the Sydney 2000 logo lower right of the coin.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
5 DOLLARS
Sydney 2000

Edge

Milled

Mints

	Perth Mint, Australia (1899-date)
	Royal Australian Mint, Canberra, Australia (1965-date)

Comments

This coin was released as a joint collaboration between the Royal Australian Mint and the Perth Mint to celebrate the holding of the XXVII Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia in the year 2000. This is coin 28 in a set of 28 that depict all 28 sports held at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Coins were all dated 2000 but were released between 1997 and 2000. Some were available separately and some were only available in a set of the full 28 coins in a special album. Interestingly some had the Maklouf Obverse and some had the Rank-Broadly Obverse.

Coin 28 represents Tennis - Tennis was actually an event at the first modern Olympic games in Athens in 1896. Played until 1924, it was re-introduced at Seoul in 1988 as a full Olympic medal sport.

Full metal composition is (Cu 92%, Al 6%, Ni 2%).

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Date			Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
2000			100 000							$ 6.70		BU in Coincard

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Pictures	Sale	Date	Sold price
	Katz Auction 106 Lot 647	27 Dec 2023	USD 6.85 (EUR 6.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Katz Auction 92 Lot 1810	15 Aug 2023	USD 6.85 (EUR 6.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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