Solomon Islands 2015 $10 First World War Centenary Gallipoli Landing Silver Coloured Proof Coin PNCs - International Halfway across

Halfway across

was created with the single goal of securing a third win at Mt Panorama - which it duly did

The obverse of the coin features a carefully-carved stylised Vytis

The coin’s design features a powerful steam-driven train emerging from the Australian landscape and honours the important role our railways have played in building our nation

and a UK £5 coin

Solomon Islands 2015 $10 First World War Centenary Gallipoli Landing Silver Coloured Proof Coin PNCs - International Halfway acrossWith the Allies seeking to obtain a strategic advantage in the First World War, an attack was launched in the Dardanelles. It was hoped that the Turkish defenders would be crushed and that the Allied fleet could then steam into Constantinople, forcing the Ottoman Empire to surrender. In the first major military engagement for Australia during the First World War, the ANZACs landed on the tiny beaches of Gallipoli at dawn on the 25th of April, 1915.