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Australia Sydney to Athens

2004  Five Dollar reverse 2004  Five Dollar obverse

2004 Five Dollar

Mintage:26,439
Reverse Designer:Wojciech Pietranik Obverse Designer:Ian Rank-Broadley Size:39mm Weight:20g Edge:Reeded Composition:92% Copper
6% Aluminium
2% Nickel

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The Sydney to Athens Five Dollar Coin was minted in Sterling Silver. It was part of the The Journey Continues - Sydney to Athens Three Coin Set and was produced to commemorate the transition and journey of the torch from Sydney to Athens. The proof coin was minted individually at 15,000 and also another 2,500 as part of a three part set. The presentation box in silver has a laurel wreath and a blue lining and was accompanied by a numbered certificate. The reverse of the coin was designed by Wojciech Pietranik and consisted of two iconic buildings from Sydney and Athens. The Parthenon is shown next to the Sydney Opera House and to the right are the five coloured Olympic rings contained within a shield which also had an Australian flag. It shows the legend "SYDNEY TO ATHENS 2000-2004". The obverse has an Ian Rank-Broadley portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, crowned and right-facing with the legend "ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2004 5 DOLLARS".

The transition from the Olympics held in Sydney, Australia and then going to Athens, Greece is a long one. The journey for the torch is well documented as it starts from Olympia in Greece and travelled approximately 78,000 kilometres. Along its journey back to Athens it traversed all five continents and visited all previous Summer Games host cities. The Torch Relay travelled along the following route: Ancient Olympia, Athens, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Delhi, Cairo, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Atlanta, New York, Montreal, Antwerp, Brussels, Amsterdam, Geneva, Lausanne, Paris, London, Barcelona, Rome, Munich, Berlin, Stockholm, Helsinki, Moscow, Kiev, Istanbul, Sofia and Nicosia (Official Olympic Website, 2013) . There were also 7,700 torch bearers of which approximately fifty percent were from Greece.

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