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1 Dollar - Charles III 1st Portrait - Quokka, Coloured
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A vibrant full-colour scene depicting a family of three quokkas — an adult standing upright in the foreground, a juvenile in the centre, and a second adult at right — set on a sandy beach evocative of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Colourful native coastal flora, including purple blooms and pink daisies, frame the composition on both sides, while a turquoise sea and a lighthouse on a rocky promontory occupy the middle ground. The legend 'QUOKKA' arcs across the upper field in bold incuse lettering against a stylised swirling sky motif rendered in uncoloured silver relief. The date '2025' appears in the lower exergue, with the Perth Mint 'P' mintmark at upper right and the designer's initials 'NM' at lower right. |
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The quokka — native almost exclusively to Rottnest Island off the Western Australian coast — became an unlikely global phenomenon through social media, where tourists photograph themselves alongside animals so docile they approach humans without fear. Perth Mint has leaned into that popularity aggressively, and the coloured wildlife series targeting international collectors reflects a deliberate commercial strategy that has little to do with domestic circulation and everything to do with the Chinese and Southeast Asian gift and investment markets.
This is also among the earliest issues to carry the first portrait of Charles III on Australian coinage.