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5 Cents - Elizabeth II 1st Portrait; In the name of - Echidna; Mary Gillick Obverse; Gold Proof

Features

Issuer Australia
King Charles III (2022-date)
Type Non-circulating coins
Year 2024
Value 5 Cents
0.05 AUD = USD 0.036
Currency Dollar (1966-date)
Composition Gold (.9999)
Weight 6.12 g
Diameter 19.53 mm
Thickness 1.3 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
469908

Commemorative issue

Gillick Memorial Obverse

Series: Change of Monarch

Obverse

1st portrait of Queen Elizabeth II facing right wearing a laurel with special Memorial text around.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II 1952 - 2022
AUSTRALIA
2024

Designer: Mary Gillick

Reverse

Short beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)

Script: Latin

Lettering:
5
SD

Designer: Stuart Devlin

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Royal Australian Mint, Canberra, Australia (1965-date)

Comments

This Fine Gold Proof 5 Cent NCLT Coin was issued by the RAM as part of a six coin set to commemorate the Change of Monarch.  The set contains six coins, five of them (5c, 10c, 20c, 50c & $1) with different effigies of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse.  The $2 coin in the set has the first effigy of King Charles III on its obverse. 

 

 

 

This 5 cent coin displays the 1st effigy by Mary Gillick as used on the first Australian coins (1953-1964) to be minted with Queen Elizabeth II.

According to centuries-old tradition, Australia's coins bear an effigy of the reigning monarch on their obverse. Queen Elizabeth II  was Australia's longest-serving monarch. Although new effigies are introduced rarely, there have been six effigies of the Queen on Australia's coins prior to her death.

Mary Gillick (1953-1964), Arnold Machin (1966-1984), Raphael Makleouf (1985-1998), Vladimir Gottwald (2000, 1 coin only), Ian Rank-Broadly (1998-2019) and Jody Clark (2019-2024).

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
2024  100 Proof in Change of Monarch Set

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Actual gold weight: 0.197 oz
Current gold price: 4460.11 USD/oz (see gold price )

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