2012 Remembrance Day Red Poppy $2 Coin in Downies Card PNC Shield of Geelong featuring kangaroo

Shield of Geelong featuring kangaroo on central shield surrounded by

The outer rim of the coin depicts representations of iconic land animals including the kangaroo

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2012 Remembrance Day Red Poppy $2 Coin in Downies Card PNC Shield of Geelong featuring kangarooThe coin features a colour poppy on the reverse, the accepted symbol of Remembrance Day and so used for the poppies that were the first plant to grow on the devastated battlefields of northern France and Belgium. This haunting image was so powerfully captured by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields, that it became the symbol of the blood shed by soldiers who have died in battle and is recognised around the world. This coin is