2012 Royal Australian Mint - Kokoda 70th Anniversary - Uncirculated 50c Carded Coins

Description

Features

• Housed in original RAM card 
  
• Struck to the RAM's Uncirculated standard
  
• Mintage of 26,899

Details

2012 will mark 70 years since the Kokoda campaign took place. During this campaign, a series of violent conflicts occurred along the notorious Kokoda Trail from August to November 1942. While the Gallipoli campaign of WWI was Australia’s first military test as a new nation, the fighting during the Kokoda campaign represents the first time in the nation’s history that its security was directly threatened. 

The village of Isurava was the site of one of several battles fought by Australian
troops during their retreat along the Kokoda Trail to Imita Ridge, and the advance
to crossing of the Kumusi at Wairopi. The then Prime Minister John Howard and
the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea Sir Michael Somare unveiled a memorial
to the Kokoda Trail campaign in Isurava on 14 August 2002. 

The memorial is immediately adjacent to the site where Private Bruce Kingsbury
performed an act of valour for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), the
first VC awarded in Papua New Guinea. 

Specifications

• Denomination: 50c
• Metal Content: Cupro-Nickel
• Mass: 15.55g
• Diameter: 31.51mm
  
• Packaging:  Coin housed in a small, green tone card, depicting a group of Australian soldiers on the front 

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