50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Australians at War - Afghanistan

Commemorative issue

Afghanistan

Series: Australians at War

Obverse

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

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2016
IRB

Designer: Ian Rank-Broadley

Reverse

Australian Soldier in full combat gear sitting next to an Afgan man. In the middle distance three Camels and three Soldiers on Patrol. In the far distance Afghani Mountains. All surrounded by a brick arch.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
50
AFGHANISTAN

Designer: Bronwyn King

Edge

12 Sided Smooth

© brismike (CC BY-NC)

Mint

Comments

The Royal Australian Mint issued this NCLT coin in a coincard as a tribute to the armed forces who served in Afghanistan. Terrorist attacks on the US in September 2001 prompted the United States of America to declare a ‘war on terror’. Citing the ANZUS treaty Australia moved quickly to support the multi-national effort and joined ‘the coalition of the willing’. Al Qaeda, the group responsible for the acts of terrorism in 2001, was protected by the Taliban and was using Afghanistan as a training base.

This coin is part of the "Australians at War" 18 coin series being issued individually. Six coins were issued in 2014, Six in 2015 and the final Six in 2016.

See also

• Camel or camelid
• Mountain
• War

• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Australian Flying Corps)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Boer War)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Battle of Cocos Islands)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Gallipoli Campaign)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - German New Guinea)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - The Western Front)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Crete)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - El Alamein)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Empire Air Training Scheme)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Greece)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Tobruk)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - War in the Pacific)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Gulf Wars)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Indonesian Confrontation)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Korean War)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Malayan Emergency)
• 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Australians at War - Vietnam War)

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