Part of Perth Mint's ongoing platinum fractional series, this issue coincides with the global platinum price spike of 2007–2008, when the metal briefly surpassed $2,000 USD per troy ounce — making the economics of a 1/10 oz platinum proof genuinely precarious for collectors buying at issue price. The pad-printing technique used for color application on this type was still relatively novel in Australian numismatics at the time, and adhesion consistency across the mintage has proven variable enough that examples with fully intact color command a meaningful premium over those showing edge separation.
Part of Perth Mint's ongoing platinum fractional series, this issue coincides with the global platinum price spike of 2007–2008, when the metal briefly surpassed $2,000 USD per troy ounce — making the economics of a 1/10 oz platinum proof genuinely precarious for collectors buying at issue price. The pad-printing technique used for color application on this type was still relatively novel in Australian numismatics at the time, and adhesion consistency across the mintage has proven variable enough that examples with fully intact color command a meaningful premium over those showing edge separation.