Australian Specialty Coins
2003 Royal Australian Army Medical Corps 50c Coin & Token Set
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2003 Royal Australian Army Medical Corps 50c Coin & Token Set
To help celebrate the Royal Australian Amy Medical Corps 100 years of service to humanity, the Royal Ausralian Mint has produced this Coin & Token set.
The set features the 1995 Weary Dunlop' 50 cent coin and a special release token depicting the hospital ship AH.S.47, better known as the 'Centaur. The ship was sunk bya torpedo from a Japanese submarine on 14 May 1943 off Moreton Island east of Brisbane.
There were 279 personnel lost in this action. This was the greatest loss of life including the RAAMC in a single action in any, war. The obuerse of the token features the RAAMC crest.