5 Dollars - Elizabeth II - Outstanding Personalities "Spence, Anderson & Nicholls" - 4th Portrait, Centenary of Federation (2001)

Features

Denomination 5 Dollars
Catalog Number KM# 639
Weight (g) 36.31
Diameter (mm) 38.74
Thickness (mm) 3.5
Shape: Round
Composition: Silver (.999)
Not Magnetic
Metal Value (USD) 96.58
Currency Value (USD) 3.54
Orientation Medal orientation ↑↑
Commemorative
Non Circulating
Calendar Gregorian

Obverse

Engraved by Ian Rank-Broadley
Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2001
IRB


Description:
Fourth crowned portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, framed by inscriptions ELIZABETH II, AUSTRALIA, and the coin's mintage year, "2001" below.

Reverse

Engraved by Vladimir Gottwald
Lettering:
C. H. Spence
M. S. ANDERSON
E. W. Nicholls
5
DOLLARS


Description:
The reverse displays three circular medallions each containing a portrait of Australian Outstanding Personalities, with their names inscribed above them, Catherine Helen Spence" Australian writer, preacher, and social reformer, Alice Elizabeth Anderson: Australian businesswoman, garage proprietor, designer, industrial/product designer, and mechanic. and Elizabeth Webb Nicholls: a key suffragist in the campaign for votes for women in South Australia against the "Australian Native Flower" Banksia in the background. The denomination curves along the lower left edge. The designer's monogram (VG) at the right side.

Edge

Description:
Reeded
Year Mintage Comment Rarity
2001 5,000 Royal Australian Mint, Proof in Masterpieces in Silver Set Unknown

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