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EUREKA STOCKADE 2004 $1 PROOF COIN

This stunning $1 Fine Silver Proof Coin is a legal tender collector coin
struck by the Royal Australian Mint to commemorate the 150th
anniversary of the Eureka Stockade, which took place on 3rd of
December 1854 in Ballarat, Victoria. The reverse of the coin features a
contemporary design which captures the image of the Stockade being
surrounded by the Victorian Governments' soldiers. Miners resented
the dear and discriminatory taxes they had to pay and also the high-
handed tactics of the authorities. Late in 1854, in deepening tension,
crowds of protestors gathered beneath a new revolutionary flag of dark
blue and white: the flag of the Southern Cross. Behind a long fenced
barricade, the more ardent rebels hoarded firearms and manufactured
iron pikes. The Victorian Government responded. At daybreak on
Sunday 3rd of December on foot and horseback, its men stormed the
Stockade. During the brief battle at least 30 miners and five soldiers
were killed. The miners' leader, Peter Lalor, lost his left arm. The
government placed the rebels on trial in Melbourne, but the juries
refused to convict them. Eureka still fires the imagination of many
Australians. They insist that it accelerated the rise of democracy, but on
this question the debate is never ending.
The obverse of the coin features the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. There is a limited mintage of only 20000
coins to be issued by the Mint. The coin comes to you housed in a
metallic blue display case along with a numbered Certificate of
Authenticity. A great coin for the collector and one that is a brilliant
reminder of the history behind the Eureka Stockade.

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$38.00AU

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