Coin | Two Dollars 2018 Remembrance Day (Poppy) |
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The two dollar coin denomination (written as $2) was introduced in Australia in 1988, replacing the earlier banknotes. The original reverse design by Horst Hahne on circulating coins has not been changed since its introduction. The denomination is also often used to issue circulating commemorative coins with various reverses.
Apart from the circulating coinage, both the Royal Australian Mint and the Perth Mint have extensive programs issuing $2 coins for collectors (Non-Circulating Legal Tender, or NCLT), such as this one.
Issued to honour those lost in all wars, the Royal Australian Mint's 2012 Remembrance Day $2 commemorative coin was unquestionably one of the major numismatic highlights of 2012. It was Australia's first circulating commemorative in the two dollar denomination, and the first to be issued in colour. Since the colouring technique was still experimental, only a small number of coins had colour applied to them; these are now a "key date" for coin collectors.
The design has been re-issued as non-circulating legal tender (NCLT) since then, including in 2018 as part of a set commemorating the 30th anniversary of the $2 denomination. |
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Obverse | |
The obverse shows the crowned mature head of Queen Elizabeth II facing right (her 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 small 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 2018.
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Reverse | |
At centre, the coin features a poppy flower - the international symbol for Remembrance Day commemorating those fallen in World War One. On a limited number of coins the poppy is coloured red and black.
The background of the central circle contains the words REMEMBRANCE DAY"in microtext repeated and presented in 11 rows, and the words LEST WE FORGET in microtext in inverse order (facing in the other direction), repeated and presented in 11 rows.
Around above, the face value TWO DOLLARS. Around below, separated by it by two small poppy flowers in the rim, the inscription REMEMBRANCE. |
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Reverse Inscription |
TWO DOLLARS REMEMBRANCE |
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Edge | Milled interrupted (20 notches in 4 sections) | Edge Inscription | None |
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Notes | Mintage includes 29,450 plain and 29,450 coloured Brilliant Uncirculated coins in the 12-coin set. |
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Included in Set |
30th Anniversary of The Two Dollar Coin (12 Coins), mintage 29,450, limited to 30,000 12 coins: $2 Third Portrait, $2 (regular), $2 Remembrance Day (Plain Poppy), $2 Remembrance Day (Red Poppy), $2 Coronation (Purple), $2 Remembrance Day (Green), $2 Lest We Forget (Red), $2 Remembrance Day (Orange), $2 Changeover, $2 Lest We Forget (Coloured Mosaic), $2 Remembrance Day (Blue and Green), $2 Lest We Forget (Eternal Flame)
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