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Fred Hollows
COINS AND MEDALS
coin
Royal Australian Mint; Rank-Broadley, Ian; Gottwald, V.
Oceania: Australia
2010
aluminum bronze
overall (card): 170 mm x 99 mm; overall (coin): 25 mm

One Australian dollar commemorative coin (posthumous, uncirculated) in struck aluminum bronze. Obverse: Crowned bust of Elizabeth II facing to right. Reverse: A portion of the facing bust of ophthalmic surgeon Frederick Cossom Hollows, wearing reading spectacles, on left in his right hand holding in a forceps an intraocular lens used in cataract surgery. Together with original collectors' presentation card from the Inspirational Australians series which includes black and white photograph of Hollows wearing surgeon's operating spectacles.


2011.183

College Purchase, 2011



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