20 Cents - Elizabeth II (4th Portrait - Rats of Tobruk)
Australia • 20 Cents • Copper-nickel • 2016
- Denomination
- 20 Cents
- Issuer
- Australia
- Struck
- 2016
- Composition
- Copper-nickel
- Currency
- Dollar
- Weight
- 11.31 g
- Diameter
- 28.52 mm
- Catalog refs
- KM 3164
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Where it came from
The 2016 20-cent coin featuring the Rats of Tobruk was issued by the Royal Australian Mint to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Siege of Tobruk during the Second World War. This coin serves as a tribute to the Australian soldiers who held the strategic Libyan port city against German and Italian forces for eight months in 1941. It is part of a broader commitment by the Mint to honor the service and sacrifice of the Australian Defence Force through its circulating commemorative coinage program.
The reverse design was created by Royal Australian Mint designer Aleksandra Stokic, who incorporated the emblem of the Rats of Tobruk Association alongside a stylized representation of the Tobruk landscape. The imagery aims to balance historical solemnity with the iconography familiar to veterans and their families. The obverse features the standard effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank-Broadley, which has been a staple of Australian coinage since the late 1990s, maintaining the formal continuity required for Australian legal tender.
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