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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Australian Kookaburra
| Issuer | Perth Mint |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Edge | Interrupted reeding |
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| Mintage | 1999 P100 - BU - Honour Mark Collection - 9,999 |
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The Australian Kookaburra series, launched by the Perth Mint in 1990, was designed from the outset as a bullion program with annual design changes — a deliberate strategy to encourage year-on-year collector purchases rather than simple bullion accumulation. The 1999 two-ounce issue sits in an awkward transitional moment: struck in the final year before widespread Y2K anxiety disrupted precious metals markets and briefly spiked silver demand among non-traditional buyers.
Ian Rank-Broadley's fourth portrait of Elizabeth II, introduced across Australian coinage in 1999, makes this among the earliest Kookaburra issues to carry it.