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2009
Antarctic
Explorers
$5
Silver
Gold
Plated
Proof
Coin
Certificate
of
Authenticity
225/500
The
Royal
Society
of
Victoria,
a
learned
society
established
in
1954
has
ben
associated
with
polar
(Antarctic)
science
since
1874
and
with
all
three
past
international
Polar
Years
including
the
currnet
IPY
2007-2008.
As
an
IPY
education,
outreach
and
communiction
project,
the
Sociey
has
commemorated
the
100th
anniversary
of
the
first
pary
to
locate
the
South
Magnetic
Pole
on
17th
January
2009;
To
mark
this
occasion,
the
Society
has
commissioned
through
the
Roayl
Australian
Mint
a
limited
mintage
of
500
gold
plated
(Explorers)
coin,
the
third
coin
in
the
Mint's
Polar
Series
coins,
which
features
the
Northern
Pary
of
Shackleton's
British
Antarctic
Expendition
1907-1909
(Mackey,
Edgeworth
David
&
Mawson)
at
the
South
Magnetic
Pole
on
16th
January
1909.
Sold
out
as
soon
as
it
was
made
available,
comes
in
box
of
issue
beautifully
presented,
mintage
of
500
only
and
very
scarce.
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