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3 Dollars - Elizabeth II Australian Owl
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 2005-2007 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | QUEEN ELIZABETH II TUVALU 2007 RDM |
| Reverse description | A naturalistic depiction of an Australian owl perched on a branch and facing forward, rendered in fine detail with textured feathering across the body and prominent circular eyes. The inscription 1/25 OZ 9999 GOLD curves along the upper left field, while the denomination 3 DOLLARS appears in two lines at the lower right. The design occupies the majority of the coin's field, emphasizing the bird's compact, rounded form. |
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Tuvalu's authority to issue coinage derives from a currency agreement with Australia, and the island nation has leveraged that arrangement since the 1970s to produce collector issues well beyond the needs of its roughly 10,000 inhabitants. The Australian Owl series was part of a broader wave of Perth Mint-produced wildlife gold fractionals marketed primarily to Northern Hemisphere collectors during the mid-2000s commodity boom, when gold's rise from under $400 to over $600 per troy ounce made small-denomination gold coins commercially attractive to mint and to own.
The Perth Mint struck this piece, as it did virtually all Tuvaluan collector coinage of the period.