2025 50c Dorothea Mackellar – Treasured Australian Poetry Uncirculated Three-Coin Collection

Description: Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar OBE was born on 1 July 1885 and holds a unique place in the literary heart of Australia. Through her evocative and descriptive poems, she captured the unique qualities of the country’s landscape, its light and colours, and in the process taped into our collective soul, giving word to our fundamental connection to country and place. Mackellar’s most famous poem My Country was first published under the title Core of My Heart in 1908. It was finally given its current title when it appeared in Mackellar’s first book, The Closed Door, and Other Verses, published in 1911. Also included in this publication was the poem Dawn which is inspired by the natural beauty of the family property, Kurrumbede, near Gunnedah in New South Wales. All coins featured in this set have been created in a unique aluminium-bronze dodecagon format, struck to the Mint’s uncirculated standard. The reverse of each coin depicts a beloved poem by Dorothea Mackellar – My Country, The Colours of Light, and Dawn.