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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Koala - Platinum - Sports
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a pad-printed polychrome composition depicting four iconic Australian sports: netball, Australian Rules football, cricket, and horse racing. Each sporting scene is rendered in vivid colour against the platinum field, celebrating the breadth of Australian sporting culture. The legend AUSTRALIAN KOALA arcs prominently, accompanied by the series designation 'Australian Stories - Sports'. The weight, fineness, and date are inscribed as 1 OZ. 9995 2004 PLATINUM, with the Perth Mint's P mintmark also present. |
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| Reverse lettering | AUSTRALIAN KOALA P Australian Stories - Sports 1 OZ. 9995 2004 PLATINUM |
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The "Sports" designation on this 2004 Koala platinum issue refers to Perth Mint's short-lived series incorporating pad-printing technology onto bullion-adjacent collector coins — a technique borrowed from industrial manufacturing that deposits a thin polymer-based ink layer directly onto the struck surface. Few mints attempted this at the time, and Perth's results were inconsistent enough that the approach was quietly abandoned. The pad-printed element is the first thing to degrade with handling, making fully intact examples genuinely difficult to source.