The RAM has gone beserk this month with quite a few releases.
This one is the four coin "War Close to Home" set. It is a pack of NCLT $1 Aluminium-bronze coins. Price is $30 from the mint but you can already get them on Flea bay for $29.50.
The four coins are part of the Official ANZAC Centenary Coin Program and have these themes... Coral Sea, Kokoda Track, Milne Bay & Sydney Harbour. Mintage is 15,000.
This is a link to the RAM page about them.
https://eshop.ramint.gov.au/A-War-Close-to-Home/311282.aspx
Cheers Mike
Yes and my two sets have again been ordered through Downies.
For a few years now I keep hearing the reference to Kokoda Track. In all my learning of this important part of our history, it was referred to as Kokoda Trail. When did this change?
There's a track winding back to an old fashioned shack along the road to Gundagai.
Track is Aussie, trail is American.
Just a bit of colloquialism. I like it better that way.
Quote from: 'autocoupler' pid='109163' dateline='1496627487'For a few years now I keep hearing the reference to Kokoda Track. In all my learning of this important part of our history, it was referred to as Kokoda Trail. When did this change?
Here are some links about the "track" vs "trail" debate:
http://kokoda.commemoration.gov.au/about-the-kokoda-track/kokoda-track-or-trail.php
https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/the-kokoda-track-or-trail
http://kokoda.commemoration.gov.au/pdf/track-or-trail-karl-james-blog.pdf (second article in PDF format)
i always thought it was trail as well
never heard of it as a track
AND
There's a track winding back to an old fashioned shack along the road to Gundagai.
I always sing is as an old abandoned shack!!
every time we drive past Gundagai - i sing that jolly song
drives the family nuts
According to the articles I posted above, it can be either. Although the word "track" was used by soldiers on the battlefields, the media have used the words "track" and "trail" interchangeably ever since. As a result, both versions are correct, so it all boils down to personal preference. :ok:
Thanks for the illumination people. Each to their own, but I honestly never heard track mentioned at all when at school, so with reference to our diggers who were there "decided to adopt "Kokoda Trail" because it was favoured by the majority of veterans and because it appears on the battle honours of those units which served in the campaign" it looks like I'm sticking to the trail :)
Quote from: 'autocoupler' pid='109197' dateline='1496675192'Thanks for the illumination people. Each to their own, but I honestly never heard track mentioned at all when at school, so with reference to our diggers who were there "decided to adopt "Kokoda Trail" because it was favoured by the majority of veterans and because it appears on the battle honours of those units which served in the campaign" it looks like I'm sticking to the trail :)
Me too!