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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Silver Kangaroo, Gilded - Ken Done

Issuer Royal Australian Mint
Year 2009
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Value 1 Dollar
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Reverse lettering ONE DOLLAR ONE OUNCE FINE SILVER Ken Done
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Ken Done — the Sydney painter known for bold colour fields and graphic coastal imagery — contributed designs to several Australian collectible issues in the late 2000s, bringing a commercial-art sensibility to the RAM's bullion-adjacent program. This gilded variant sits within a short run of artist-collaboration pieces the mint issued to differentiate its collector silver from standard bullion, selectively applying gold plating to contrast against the fine silver field.

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Ken Done — the Sydney painter whose commercial and fine-art work became closely identified with Australian tourism imagery through the 1980s — collaborated with the Royal Australian Mint on a small series of collectible silver pieces in the late 2000s. The gilded variant was produced in lower numbers than the ungilded release, distinguishing it within what was already a limited collector program rather than a bullion issue.

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