2009 $5 Polar Series Antarctic Explorers Silver Proof Coin PNCs - International This coin celebrates one of

This coin celebrates one of Australia’s earliest and most intriguing forms of currency - the Holey Dollar and Dump

An innovator in the production of pottery

The coin’s reverse portrays two boxing kangaroos against a representation of a landscape with two leafless trees

and in opening Australia to the world

Her father died shortly after her birth

2009 $5 Polar Series Antarctic Explorers Silver Proof Coin PNCs - International This coin celebrates one ofDeveloped in conjunction with the Royal Society of Victoria and celebrating Australias connection with Antarctica, with over on ounce of silver (36. 31g), this coin honours the first Australians to explore the southern continent. Douglas Mawson, Tannat Edgeworth David and Forbes Mackay were members of the Ernest Shackleton Expedition. It depicts the moment when the three reached the South Magnetic Pole in January 1909.