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This beautiful silver bullion coin commemorates the centenary of the Armistice in 1918. Signed between France, Britain and Germany in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne north of Paris, the Armistice implemented a ceasefire at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. The Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended the war, was then signed on 28 June 1919. Struck by The Perth Mint from 2oz of 99.99% pure silver, the coin is issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965 and has a limited mintage of 10,000.

DESIGN

Featured on each coin’s reverse is a dove, a bird which has for millennia represented peace, holding in its beak a poppy. Poppies were the first flowers to bloom in the devastated battlefields of Western Europe and soon became widely accepted as the symbol of remembrance. In the background is the word peace struck in different fonts, the inscription ‘1918 END of WORLD WAR I’ and The Perth Mint’s traditional ‘P’ mintmark.

Each coin’s obverse depicts the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the 2018 year- date, the weight and fineness, and the monetary denomination.

TECHNICAL NOTES

With its extra thick planchet, this 2oz coin is reminiscent of traditional ‘piedforts’ (pronounced pee-ay-fore), which take their name from the French words for heavy weight.

PRESENTATION

The End of World War I 100th Anniversary 2018 2oz Silver Bullion Piedfort Coin is presented in a protective acrylic capsule.