Details
- Series: 1971 Coils & Queen Elizabeth II
- Subject: Sturt’s Desert Rose
- Designer: Reserve Bank of Australia
- Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne
- Process: Photogravure
- Cylinders: Lemon Yellow – Magenta – Dark Green – Grey (printing order)
- Paper: Wiggins Teape coated unwatermarked with Helecon
- Watermark: None
- Perf: 14.5 x imperf (ten holes at 0.40″ diameter x six holes at .35″ diameter)
- Sheet:
- Quantity:
- 4,100,000 (1 July 1979 – 30 June 1980)
A quantity of coils containing 500 stamps were manufactured for each of the three values so that supplies of the coil stamps would be available at post offices throughout Australia when the new postal charges were introduced. Normal content of the coils is 1,000 stamps.