10 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Year of the Snake - Silver Proof

Australia's lunar series coins have been struck at both the Perth Mint and the Royal Australian Mint, but the RAM's involvement in larger-format silver proofs of this type was limited — making this 155.5g piece one of the less prolific issues in the broader Australian lunar canon. The Year of the Snake fell in 2013, corresponding to a year associated in the Chinese zodiac cycle with wisdom and deliberation, a pairing that made these coins particularly marketable to Southeast Asian collector networks that had become a significant driver of Australian bullion proof demand by the early 2010s.