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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II 6th Portrait - Black Swan Maali - Antiqued
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#4375 |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 2oz 9999 AG 2022 2 DOLLARS JC |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The black swan was unknown to Europeans until Willem de Vlamingh's 1697 expedition along the western Australian coast — a discovery so disorienting to natural philosophy that "black swan" became shorthand for any impossible-seeming event suddenly made real. Maali is the Noongar word for the bird, and the Perth Mint's use of it here reflects a broader institutional shift toward acknowledging Noongar naming conventions for fauna native to southwestern Western Australia.
Pad printing on antiqued silver blanks is a fussier process than it appears, requiring a separate application stage after the antiquing treatment to prevent ink adhesion failures in recessed fields.