2012 $2 Remembrance Day 'Red Poppy' PNC PNCs - International but it was not until

but it was not until the Coinage Act of 1909 that the Government took steps to introduce distinctive Australian coins

The motto for the London Olympic Games is Live as one

created by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler

Australia's early colonial economy

an Emerald Dove poised on the top

2012 $2 Remembrance Day 'Red Poppy' PNC PNCs - International but it was not untilSince the devastating years of the Great War, the red poppy (Papaver rhoeas) has become a vivid and resonant symbol for remembrance. This humble plant thrives in disturbed soils, and so it flowered in spring across the war ravaged landscape of the Western Front. While the flourishing of a bloom suggests renewal of life, for soldiers the vermilion red petals symbolised the blood of fellow soldiers spilt on the Western Front, a symbol popularised by the