The Perth Mint's lunar series has been running since 1996, and the 2008 Mouse issue falls in the second cycle — the first having concluded in 2007. Each two-ounce piece in this series is struck to a declared mintage ceiling, with the Mouse sitting at 30,000 pieces, though actual production rarely reached the stated maximum in earlier years of the second series.
Ian Rank-Broadley's fourth portrait of Elizabeth II, adopted by the Perth Mint in 1998, appears here without the added titles used on Australian circulation coinage.
The Perth Mint's lunar series has been running since 1996, and the 2008 Mouse issue falls in the second cycle — the first having concluded in 2007. Each two-ounce piece in this series is struck to a declared mintage ceiling, with the Mouse sitting at 30,000 pieces, though actual production rarely reached the stated maximum in earlier years of the second series.
Ian Rank-Broadley's fourth portrait of Elizabeth II, adopted by the Perth Mint in 1998, appears here without the added titles used on Australian circulation coinage.