2025 Coins for the Second World War
By CAA | Monday, 3 November 2025
Two 2 dollars 2025 C mintmark uncirculated coins were released by the RAM, including one in proof silver. The reverse design features a poppy for each decade since the formal surrender of Japan and the end of the World War II.
In honour of the Australians who served in the Second World War, the Royal Australian Mint presented new coins. The coins features a wreath of red poppies, an enduring symbol of remembrance in Australia and other Commonwealth nations.
Surrounded by sculpted leaves, the eight poppies in the wreath represent the eight decades that have passed since the most devastating war in human history.
More than 20 years after the guns fell silent on the Western Front in November 1918, war again broke out on a global scale. This war, the Second World War, proved to be the deadliest in human history.
Close to 40,000 Australians lost their lives, and with the bombing of Darwin in February 1942, the Australian mainland came under attack for the first time.
On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland set the Second World War into motion. 2 days later, Australian Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies followed Britain’s lead and declared that Australia was at war with Germany.
Almost a million Australians served in the Second World War, joining the war effort primarily in the Mediterranean and the Middle East in 1940 and 1941, and increasingly in the Pacific after Japan entered the war in December 1941.
Women served as well, with women’s branches of the Army, Navy and Air Force established in 1941.
2 dollars 2025 not intended for circulation
