1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait -... I love her jewel sea

Features

Commemorative issue

Jewel Sea

Series: A Sunburnt Country

Obverse

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

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA
IRB
1oz 999 SILVER 2015 1 DOLLAR

Engraver: Ian Rank-Broadley

Reverse

A colourful image of a turtle swimming through coral in the ocean with sunlight sparkling off the water's surface. The design includes the inscription I LOVE A SUNBURNT COUNTRY...I love her jewel sea and the Perth Mint's P mintmark.

Lettering:
I LOVE A SUNBURNT COUNTRY © DME
...I love her jewel sea
P
NM

Engraver: Natasha Muhl

Edge

Plain smooth

Mint

Comments

Dorothea MacKellar's My Country is one of Australia's most widely recited and beloved poems. Reflective of the author's great love of the Australian landscape, the poem has become one of the most recognised and celebrated pieces of Australian poetry ever written.

2nd stanza
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!

See also

• Marine invertebrate
• Coloured coins
• Sea

• 1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - ...Of ragged mountain ranges)
• 1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait -... of droughts and flooding rains)
• 1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait -... A land of sweeping plains)

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