Two Dollars 2017 Remembrance Day (Blue and Green), Coin from Australia - detailed information

These circulating commemorative two dollar coins mark Remembrance Day (sometimes known informally as Poppy Day). Remembrance Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. Following a tradition inaugurated by King George V in 1919, the day is also marked by war remembrances in many non-Commonwealth countries. Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November in most countries to recall the end of hostilities of World War I on that date in 1918.

The Royal Australian Mint issued a series of coins commemorating starting in 2012, with differently designed and coloured reverses (in some years more than one type): 2012 Remembrance Day (Poppy), 2014 Remembrance Day (Green), 2015 Remembrance Day (Red), 2015 Remembrance Day (Orange), 2017 Remembrance Day (Red), 2017 Remembrance Day (Blue and Green) and 2018 Eternal Flame.

This sixth coloured coin in the series features a wreath of rosemary flowers; rosemary has traditionally been worn on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day as a way to commemorate those who have died in active service and other military operations.

Coins issued in 2017 have now been in circulation for only two years.

Crowned mature head of Queen Elizabeth II facing right (effigy known as the "Fourth Portrait"). The Queen wears the "Girls of Great Britain and Ireland" diamond tiara, a wedding gift from Queen Mary (Her Majesty's grandmother) in 1947 - which she also has on the Machin and the Gottwald portraits.

In tiny letters below the head, the artist's initials IRB (for Ian Rank-Broadley).

Around the effigy is the monarch's legend and the date: ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2017.

In the centre of the reverse there is a representation of a rosemary flower enclosed by four concentric circles. Superimposed on the concentric circles is a coloured (green and blue) representation of a rosemary wreath including six rosemary flowers. Surrounding the concentric circles is a rosemary wreath intertwined with a ribbon and the word Remembrance.

The design includes a circular border, the inscription TWO DOLLARS around below and the initials of the designer Aleksandra Stokic in the right field: AS.