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30 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Australian Kookaburra - Silver Bullion Coin
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Thickness | 14.6 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The 2008 Kookaburra kilogram issue was part of a series Perth Mint had run since 1990, but by 2008 the program had become one of the few government-backed silver bullion series globally to change its reverse design annually — a deliberate strategy to drive collector demand alongside bullion interest. That annual-change policy, unusual among sovereign mints at the time, kept secondary market premiums stubbornly high relative to spot.
Elizabeth II's fourth portrait, by Ian Rank-Broadley, had been in use since 1998 across Commonwealth issues.