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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Gold Kangaroo, Ken Done
| Issuer | Royal Australian Mint |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | A boldly stylised kangaroo leaps to the right in the graphic artistic style of Australian artist Ken Done, rendered with strong contour lines and minimal interior detail. Above the kangaroo, a stylised sun with radiating pointed rays dominates the upper field. The ground beneath the kangaroo is depicted with decorative undulating bands and dotted textures evoking the Australian landscape. The denomination TEN DOLLARS is inscribed in large letters along the left and right margins respectively, and the artist's signature Ken Done appears in the lower left field. |
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| Mint | Perth Mint |
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The Gold Kangaroo bullion series began in 1986 under the Perth Mint, but the Royal Australian Mint's own gold issues occupy a distinct and sometimes overlooked corner of Australian numismatics. This 2009 piece features a design by Ken Done, the Sydney-based artist whose bold graphic style made him internationally recognizable after his work appeared in promotional material for the 1988 Bicentennial. Done's involvement in official coinage was brief, and his contribution to this series sits well outside his commercial poster work — an unusual pairing of fine art celebrity and sovereign gold issue.