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

Commemorative issue

Vietnam

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

A group of six Australian Soldiers with military equipment about to board a Chinook Helicopter which is in the background. Set above a coloured military ribbon.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
VIETNAM WAR • 1962 - 1975
50

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 the Vietnam War between 1962 to 1975. Australia joined American forces in South Vietnam following a request from the South Vietnamese government to assist with a growing communist insurgency. The AATTV would gradually swell in numbers periodically until the larger deployment of Australian forces began later in the war. The Australian war was mainly one of extensive jungle patrolling, but major actions were fought at Long Tan, Fire Support Bases at Coral and Balmoral, Binh Ba and Long Khanh.

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.


This coin was also issued by Australia Post in a PNC (8,000 Copies)


The same PNC was issued with an ANDA Sydney Money Expo Overprint on October 15-16 2016 (600 Copies)

See also

• Firearms
• Plane or aircraft
• 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 - Afghanistan)
• 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)

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