Kokoda Trail tribute

The 2022 Anzac Day $1 Coin in Card marks the 80^th anniversary of the Kokoda Trail campaign of World War II – a series of fierce engagements between Japanese and Allied forces in the then Australian Territory of Papua.

Australian troop design

The coin portrays Australian troops climbing the steep mountainous Kokoda Trail. Included in the design is a stylised motif representing a flaming torch, as well as the inscriptions ‘25 APRIL’, ‘LEST WE FORGET’ and The Perth Mint’s ‘P’ mintmark.