2002 Queen’s Golden Jubilee Australia One Dollar Colorized Silver Proof Coin.
RARE - One of 15,000 proof coins used in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Commemorative Coin Set!
PLEASE NOTE:
The encapsulated silver proof coin pictured is the exact coin you will receive. This coin appears to be in mint condition. This coin has never been removed from the original mint capsule. As with many mint encapsulated coins, it is not uncommon that you may notice fine particles of dust within or minor abrasions on the capsule surface. Please carefully review the photographs of the coin as they serve an integral part of the coin’s description.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
GOLDEN JUBILEE COLLECTION
AUSTRALIA
The ceremony of Trooping the Colour, London's most impressive military parade, has marked the official birthday of the Sovereign since the middle of the eighteenth century and, with few exceptions, has been performed annually since the accession of George IV.
The Queen, as heir presumptive, first took part in the historic ceremony in 1947, the first Birthday Parade to be held after the Second World War, and took the salute personally in 1951 when she deputised for the King. Until 1987, she would ride side saddle, in uniform, her elegant scarlet tunic displaying the distinctive buttons and badges of the regiment whose Colour was to be trooped and her plume matching the plume on the guards' bearskins.
It is this famous image, superimposed upon the Union Flag and surrounded by a decorative border of Foot Guards, that is captured on Australia's Trooping the Colour coin. Since 1987, however, the Queen has used Queen Victoria's phaeton her horse Burmese, a gift from the stables of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, having retired the previous year after almost twenty years service.
The Queen’s Birthday Parade
SPECIFICATIONS
Denomination: 1 Dollar
Obverse designer: lan Rank-Broadley
Reverse designer: Travis Farley
Alloy: Sterling .999 Fine Silver
Diameter: 40.60 mm
Weight: 31.15 gms
Quality: Proof
Issue Limit: 50,000 may be struck as
individual pieces, of which a quantity will be reserved for inclusion in the Golden Jubilee Collection.
A maximum of 15,000 collections will be made available for worldwide distribution.
Mintmark: Both Golden Jubilee coins from Australia will carry the Perth mintmark, the letter P, on the reverse.
The Soldiers of the Household Division
traditionally have the honour of guarding the Monarch and regard the Trooping the Colour ceremony as a personal tribute to their Queen and Colonel-in-Chief. The five regiments of Foot Guards - Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh in order of seniority - provide the Colour in turn, with the Scots Guards having the honour in the Queen's Golden Jubilee Year. The two regiments of the Household Cavalry, The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals, also take part as has, more recently, The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery.
As well as their individual badges, each
regiment of Foot Guards, other than the Scots Guards who have none, is distinguished by different colour bearskin plumes - white for the Grenadier Guards, red for the Coldstream Guards, blue for the Irish Guards and green and white for the Welsh Guards.