1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 6th Portrait - 150th anniversary of Australian Overland Telegraph Line

Features

Issuer	Australia
Królowa	Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type	Non-circulating coins
Year	2022
Value	1 Dollar 1 AUD = USD 0.71
Currency	Dollar (1966-date)
Composition	Brąz aluminiowy (92% Copper, 6% Aluminium, 2% Nickel)
Weight	9 g
Diameter	25 mm
Thickness	2.5 mm
Shape	Okrągły
Technique	Frezowana
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 335684
References	KM# 4301 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).

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Commemorative issue

150. rocznica australijskiej lądowej linii telegraficznej Automatically translated

Obverse

Szósty koronowany portret królowej Elżbiety II zwróconej w prawo, noszącej diadem państwowy Jerzego IV i wiktoriański naszyjnik koronacyjny. Automatically translated

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 2022
1 DOLLAR
JC

Designer: Jody Clark

Reverse

(en) To the left a Linesman climbing up a Telegraph Pole next to a map of Australia with the route of the Overland Telegraph Line. Below that Morse Code dot-dash symbols.

Scripts: łaciński, Morse

Lettering:
150th Anniversary
The Overland Telegraph Line
Darwin
Yam Creek
Katherine
Daly Waters
Powell Creek
Tennant Creek
Barrow Creek
Alice Springs
Charlotte Waters
The Peake
Strangways Springs
Beltans
Port Augusta
SMS

Designer: Stevan Stojanovic

Edge

7 krótszych gładkich segmentów pomiędzy 7 segmentami z trzciny (11 rowków każdy) Automatically translated

Mint

Royal Australian Mint, Canberra, Australia (1965-date)

Comments

(en) Issued by the RAM in a coincard. This 2022 $1 NCLT Uncirculated Coin commemorates the 1872 opening of the line and Australia’s historic telegraphic connection with the rest of the world.

Also issued by Australia Post in a PNC Issue 18 of 2022 (7,500 Copies) (Includes Envelope Privy)
PNC Front & Rear Cover

PNC Inside Card

Life in Australia changed forever when Charles Heavitree Todd’s Overland Telegraph Line opened. An extraordinary engineering feat, the line stretched 2,839 km from Port Augusta to Darwin through the dry Australian outback, on 36,000 poles.

In 1872, the South Australian Government completed the Overland Telegraph Line from Port Augusta to Port Darwin, and from there connected to an undersea cable that led to Europe. Postmaster-General Charles Heavitree Todd had promised it would be done in 18 months, despite arid central Australia being mostly unexplored. He mobilised three large workforces, led by engineers, surveyors, and explorers, to install 2,839 km of galvanised number 8 fencing wire on 36,000 poles. The line was joined, seven months late, at Frew’s Ironstone Ponds, N.T. Then, at 12:10 P.M. on 22 August, Senior Telegraph Officer J.A.G. Little tapped Morse code into his handset, in Port Darwin. Fifty minutes later his message was read in Adelaide.

Soon after, electric communication through to London within 7 hours was a daily occurrence. The ‘tyranny of distance’ was conquered, and life in Australia was never the same again.

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Date	Mintage	UNC		Frequency
Undetermined
2022	15 000	$ 11	(en) BU in Coincard	89%
2022 [ENV]	7 500		(en) BU in PNC with Envelope Privy	26%

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