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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Kangaroo - Gold Bullion Coin
| Issuer | Perth Mint |
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| Year | 2016-2019 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley. The Queen's bust is encircled by the foliage of the Tasmanian Blue Gum tree (Eucalyptus globulus), with sprigs of leaves framing the design. The legend ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 100 DOLLARS appears around the periphery, with the designer's initials IRB truncated at the base of the portrait. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Perth Mint's four-nines gold bullion series occupies a specific commercial niche: investment-grade product competing directly against the Royal Canadian Mint's Maple Leaf and South Africa's Krugerrand, both of which had decades of market penetration before Australia entered the field seriously in the late 1980s. The kangaroo design rotates annually — a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure that also forces secondary-market buyers to track individual years rather than treat the series as interchangeable product.
KM#2077 covers the span during which Ian Rank-Broadley's effigy was still current before Jody Clark's portrait was adopted for Australian coinage.