1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Thorny Devil Lizard

The Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) is endemic to the arid scrublands of central and western Australia, and the Perth Mint has drawn on native fauna repeatedly for its bullion and collector series since the 1990s. This piece belongs to the Australian Lizard series, a short run that leaned into the country's reputation for exotic herpetofauna at a moment when Asian collector demand for thematic Perth Mint silver was accelerating sharply. KM# 204 is the series entry most consistently confused with the earlier Frilled Lizard issues by catalog indexers.