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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Platypus Dreaming
| Issuer | Perth Mint |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2011 P - BU - 2,396 |
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Part of the Perth Mint's long-running bullion and collector series celebrating Australian fauna through Indigenous artistic traditions, this piece was issued during a period when the Royal Australian Mint and Perth Mint were both aggressively expanding silver collector coinage to capture growing international bullion demand. Perth's production volumes for one-ounce silver dollars climbed sharply after 2008 as spot silver rose toward its 2011 peak near $50 USD — making issues from exactly this year unusually well-timed commercially.
KM#1609 is one of several distinct reverse designs struck to the same specification that year, a practice that inflates the series count while keeping individual mintages relatively modest.