a century of serviceANZAC CENTENARY

2014 - 2018 commemorative coin program

A CENTURY OF SERVICEANZAC CENTENARY

2014 – 2018 COMMEMORATIVE COIN PROGRAM

The Royal Australian Mint has partnered with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Australian War Memorial for the 2014-2018 ANZAC Centenary period to produce a collection of commemorative coins which capture the history, service and sacrifice of Australians at war.

Australia entered the Great War in August 1914, following the commencement of hostilities between Germany and Great Britain. Almost 417 000 Australian men enlisted from a population of fewer than five million.

By the end of the war four years later, more than 60 000 had been killed and more than 150 000 had been wounded, maimed or taken prisoner. Australia’s most famous campaign, though ultimately a defeat, was fought on the shores and hillsides of the Gallipoli Peninsula against the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Australian Diggers fought alongside New Zealanders as the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, the ANZACs. They fought there for eight months before withdrawing. British and French troops among others also served on Gallipoli.

Each year on 25 April, on the anniversary of the dawn landings at Anzac Cove and the start of the Gallipoli campaign, we remember the sacrifice made by all Australians in war, conflict and peacekeeping operations.

Over the coming five years Australia will commemorate not only one hundred years since the First World War, but we will mark seventy years since the end of the Second World War, sixty five years since the start of the Korean War, forty five years since Australian troops withdrew from Vietnam and fifteen years since the start of the war in Afghanistan. We will also remember seventy years of Australian peacekeeping.

The Australian experience of war has many facets; a common thread has always been stories of mateship, larrikinism and duty.

This program endeavours to remember those conflicts and help Australians tell the story of how instrumental those times were in creating the Australia we know today.

2014 $1 Circulating Coin – 100 Years of ANZAC - The Spirit Lives 2014 $5 Fine Silver Proof Triangular Coin – Lest We Forget 2014 $1 Uncirculated Coin – 70th Anniversary of retirement - G for George 2014 $10 Copper Antique Coin – A History of the Victoria Cross 2014 $2 Coloured Circulating Coin – Remembrance Day 2014 $2 Coloured ‘C’ Mintmark Coin – Remembrance Day 2014 $1 Silver Proof Coin – 100th Anniversary of First AIF Convoy 2014 $10 Gold Proof Coin – 100th Anniversary of First AIF Convoy

AUSTRALIA AT WAR – THE GREAT WAR

• 2014 50c Coloured Uncirculated Coin – Boer War • 2014 50c Uncirculated Coin – German New Guinea • 2014 50c Uncirculated Coin – Battle of Cocos Islands • 2014 50c Uncirculated Coin – Australian Flying Corps • 2014 50c Uncirculated Coin – Gallipoli Campaign • 2014 50c Coloured Uncirculated Coin – The Western Front

2014 PROGRAM

AUSTRALIA AT WAR WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE AS A SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAM

100th Anniversary of the Somme, Fromelles, and Pozieres 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan

AUSTRALIA AT WAR – POST-1945 CONFLICTS

• Korean War • Malayan Emergency • Indonesian Confrontation • Vietnam War • Gulf Wars • Afghanistan

ANZAC Centenary Collection

AUSTRALIA AT WAR – THE SECOND WORLD WAR

• El Alamein • Tobruk • Greece • Crete • Empire Air Training Scheme • War in the Pacific

2015 PROGRAM

2016 PROGRAM

2017 PROGRAM

2018 PROGRAM

75th Anniversary of Vyner Brooke 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Beersheba

THE HOME FRONT

• Coral Sea • Kokoda Track • Milne Bay • 75th Anniversary of the attacks on Sydney Harbour

Hall of Remembrance 75th Anniversary of the sinking of the Centaur

THE CENTENARY OF THE ARMISTICE

On 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent across the Western Front, though thousands of Australians would never return home at the end of the Great War.

100th Anniversary of Armistice

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Coin Terminology

Circulating – The Mint produces up to 650 circulating coins a minute, intended to be used as currency.

Uncirculated – These collector coins usually feature special designs. Striking at a slower rate with greater force produces a better image.

Antique – A treatment applied to coins after minting to give the look of older metal.

Frosted Uncirculated – These coins have the defining feature of a polished, more striking image against a frosted background.

Proof – Produced in hand-operated coin presses, in a controlled environment and generally made with precious metals.

The Royal Australian Mint in Canberra is Australia’s official mint and the sole producer

of Australia’s circulating coinage.

Opened in 1965, the Royal Australian Mint’s first task was to produce new coins for the introduction of decimal currency the following year. Today, the Mint also produces coins for several other governments.

The Royal Australian Mint also creates a significant catalogue of collectable coin releases. The Mint

iconifies the Australian story through minted treasures and provides the public with an opportunity to connect

and share these stories in a tangible way.

The Royal Australian Mint plans to commemorate these themes, subject to Australian Government currency determination. All products and themes are correct at time of printing, but are subject to change.