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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Australian Kookaburra - Silver Set
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse description | The fourth-generation effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicting the monarch in right-facing profile wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara. The truncation of the bust bears the engraver's initials IRB. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 1 DOLLAR, with the denomination and issuer disposed around the portrait in the field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Australian Kookaburra series, running since 1990, changes its reverse design annually — a deliberate strategy by the Perth Mint to drive year-on-year collector demand. The 2009 one-ounce issue was released during a period of extraordinary global silver investment appetite, when the 2008 financial crisis had sent retail buyers flooding into bullion products and mint allocations were being exhausted within days of release.
KM#1278 belongs to a set issue rather than the standard bullion release, distinguishing it from the single-coin trade pieces of the same year.