50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Gallipoli Campaign

Features

Commemorative issue

Australia at War: Gallipoli Campaign

Obverse

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

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2014

Engraver: Ian Rank-Broadley

Reverse

Map of ANZAC cove
Ships, landing craft, and an Australian soldier wearing slouch hat quietly reflecting his thoughts on the shore of Gallipoli

Lettering:
50
Gallipoli Campaign 1915
Anzac Cove 26*30'E 40*19'N

Engraver: Wojciech Pietranik

Edge

12 Sided Smooth

© Mike Bentley

Comments

Royal Australian Mint issued this Copper-nickel 50 cent NCLT coin as a tribute to the ANZAC's who served at Galipolli in WW1 in a Coincard.


Australia Post also issued it in a PNC Cover.


On 25 April 1915, Australian and New Zealand troops came ashore on Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula as part of a wider British effort to seize control of the Dardanelles straits. After the landing, the fighting ground to a stalemate, with Turkish forces holding the ridges of the precipitous terrain for the entire eight-month campaign.
This coin is part of the "Australians at War" 18 coin series being issued individually - See links below.

See also

• War

• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (Australian Flying Corps)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (Boer War)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (Battle of Cocos Islands)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (German New Guinea)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (The Western Front)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (Crete)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (El Alamein)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (Empire Air Training Scheme)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (Greece)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (Tobruk)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (War in the Pacific)

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