Late Queen Elizabeth honoured on new Australian coin marking nation’s heritage

On the eve of the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s demise, September 7, Australia will honour the late Queen with a brand new five-dollar coin.

It options the previous monarch on one facet, and depictions of Australian Aboriginal heritage and convict historical past on the opposite.

The picture of the Queen was designed by Jody Clark, a British engraver who produced portraits of the monarch for British coinage.

The different facet of the coin options Australia’s World Heritage websites from the Sydney Opera House, the Great Barrier Reef, the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, and the tropical rainforests of northern Queensland.

The new coin, produced by the Royal Australian Mint, was unveiled on the Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, a website constructed by the British to accommodate convicts after the penal colony of New South Wales was established in 1788.

Australia has 11 UNESCO-recognised convict websites and greater than 166,000 males, girls, and kids had been banished as convicts to Australia in a interval of 80 years.

Some of the worst convicts of the British Empire had been despatched to Port Arthur, one of many websites featured on the coin.

The nation’s Aboriginal heritage is represented by depictions of historic settlements and a picture of a handprint, a mark that Aborigines as soon as left on the partitions of caves and on rock slabs throughout the continent.

As reported within the Telegraph, Professor Richard Mackay, a former chairman of Australia’s World Heritage Advisory Committee, stated: “This amazing coin highlights the diversity of Australia’s internationally significant heritage and will encourage awareness of our unique biodiversity, deep indigenous connections with country and extraordinary cultural places.”

Meanwhile, Andrew Leigh, a authorities minister, stated: “As Australians, we’re fortunate to live in a country with so much natural beauty.

“By celebrating Australia’s World Heritage websites by this collectible coin, the Royal Australian Mint is doing its bit to assist unfold the phrase about our magnificent pure and constructed heritage.”