2019 Bringing Them Home – a centenary of repatriation Coin
On 8th April 2019 the Royal Australian Mint released new colored $2 coins to commemorate the centenary of repatriation for Australian soldiers and nurses after the First World War. The system of repatriation is created by the Australian government to prepare the thousands of Australian soldiers who were returned from fighting in France, Belgium and the Middle East after the conclusion of the First World War. Most of these soldiers, medial and para-medial persons were injured, handicapped or scarred and the war trauma affected them physically as well as mentally, so system of repatriation was necessary to bring back them to the public life. The Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act received Royal Assent on the 28th September 1917 and the Repatriation Board formed in each state on the 8th April 1918 to implement the program and meet their unique needs. The Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), to provide necessary support to defense force veterans and their families such as war pensions, soldier settlement schemes, employment, healthcare, education and housing also started after the 1917 legislation.
From 1919, the Repatriation Department began fully operation and helped of tens of thousands of ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) soldiers and nurses. All the returned ANZAC soldiers awarded the “Returned from Active Service” badges between 1914 to 1919 and the coins reverse features the exact same badge with 8 Flanders Field poppy petals represents the six states and two territories of Australia. The reverse also shows the inscriptions ” ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF REPATRIATION and the face value 2 DOLLARS”. The obverse of the coin depicts British sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley’s effigy of HM Queen Elizabeth II witch has been seen on all Australian circulation coins since 1999.
The 2019 celebrating ‘Bringing Them Home’ – a centenary of repatriation coin released to circulation on April 8 and a special collectors edition coin in a custom-made pack with ‘C’ Mint-mark is also available from the Royal Mint. The coin’s base metal is Aluminum-bronze alloy, the coin weighs 6.60 grams and having a diameter of 20.5 mm. The coin having a limited mintage of 40,00 coins world wide.
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