2022 50c Treasured Australian Stories Henry Lawson The Drover's Wife Uncirculated Coin PNCs - 30c The coin's reverse depicts a

The coin's reverse depicts a coloured representation of two Australian koala's framed by a heart of entwined gum leaves and blossoms

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the goldfields won the right to parliamentary representation and rebel leader Peter Lalor was elected to represent Ballarat in the Legislative Council

The discovery of payable gold in the colony of New South Wales in 1851 lay behind the establishment of the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint

2022 50c Treasured Australian Stories Henry Lawson The Drover's Wife Uncirculated Coin PNCs - 30c The coin's reverse depicts aIn The Drovers Wife, one of Lawsons most famous stories, the nameless heroine fights fire and flood, defends herself and her children against interlopers, and in the storys central incident, kills the snake threatening them all. Lawson brilliantly evokes the underlying truth of the womans desperate loneliness, the slow, irresistible erosion of her hopes and dreams, her sad attempts to relive and revive the values and scenes of a past life.