Part of the Perth Mint's "Australian Dreaming" series, this issue draws on the frilled neck lizard's particular status in Australian popular consciousness — the species became internationally recognizable after a 1984 Jurassic Park precursor moment when footage of one running bipedally went viral before viral was a concept, appearing in everything from tourism campaigns to the Mitsubishi Colt advertisement that ran globally through the late 1980s. The pad-printing technique used here applies color directly to the struck planchet rather than through enamel inlay, a production method the Perth Mint refined considerably during this period.
Part of the Perth Mint's "Australian Dreaming" series, this issue draws on the frilled neck lizard's particular status in Australian popular consciousness — the species became internationally recognizable after a 1984 Jurassic Park precursor moment when footage of one running bipedally went viral before viral was a concept, appearing in everything from tourism campaigns to the Mitsubishi Colt advertisement that ran globally through the late 1980s. The pad-printing technique used here applies color directly to the struck planchet rather than through enamel inlay, a production method the Perth Mint refined considerably during this period.