10 Cents - Elizabeth II 6th Portrait - Fine Silver Proof

Features

Commemorative issue

Fine Silver Proof Year Set

Obverse

6th crowned portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the George IV State Diadem and the Victorian Coronation Necklace

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2020
JC

Designer: Jody Clark

Jody Clark is a British engraver employed by the Royal Mint, notable for designing the fifth and latest portrait of Queen Elizabeth II to feature on coins of the pound sterling.

Reverse

Male Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), value superimposed.

Lettering:
10
SD

Designer: Stuart Devlin

Stuart Leslie Devlin, AO, CMG is a significant contemporary gold and silversmith. Australian-born, he has designed coins for countries around the world, and became especially well known as London-based designer of gold and silver collector's items in the 1970s and 80s.

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Comments

This Fine Silver (.999) Proof 10 cent coin was released as part of the annual Fine Silver Proof Year Set. The Royal Australian Mint began releasing Fine Silver Year Sets in 2003 and have continued to do so since then. The Lyrebird standard reverse 10 cent coin has been included in the Fine Silver Proof Year set every year since 2003.
The Jody Clark 6th Portrait of Queen Elizabeth has been used on the obverse of coins in this 2020 edition of the set for the first time.

The Fine Silver Proof Set normally includes a, 5 cent, 20 cent, 50 cent, $1 and $2 coin as well as this 10 cent coin. The sets are issued in a presentation case, initially made from wood but recently made from plastic or imitation wood.

 

The standard Copper-nickel version of the 10 cent coin which this Silver coin is based on was introduced into circulation in Australia in 1966 to replace the old £sd Shilling.

See also

• Bird

• 5 Cents - Elizabeth II (6th Portrait - Fine Silver Proof)
• 10 Cents - Elizabeth II (6th Portrait)
• 20 Cents - Elizabeth II (6th Portrait - Fine Silver Proof)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (6th Portrait - Fine Silver Proof)
• 1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (6th Portrait - Fine Silver Proof)
• 2 Dollars - Elizabeth II (6th portrait - Fine Silver Proof)

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