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30 Dollars - Elizabeth II 6th Portrait - Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle - Silver Bullion Coin
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Diameter | 100.9 mm |
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| Reverse description | A powerful depiction of an Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle in dynamic descent, wings fully spread and talons extended as it strikes at a serpent coiled beneath it. The eagle's plumage is rendered in fine detail, with individual feathers visible across the wings and body, conveying both motion and predatory force. The Perth Mint's P mintmark appears to the left of the design, and the designer's initials JM are incused within the field. The arc legend AUSTRALIAN WEDGE-TAILED EAGLE is inscribed along the upper rim, while the inscription 2021 1 KILO 9999 SILVER appears in the lower exergue. |
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| Mintage | 2021 P - BU - Incused - 250 |
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The Wedge-Tailed Eagle series is among Perth Mint's most consistently collected annual bullion programs, but the one-kilogram format occupies a different category entirely — struck to order rather than held in bulk inventory, with each piece individually numbered. The 2021 issue maintained the .9999 fineness standard that Perth adopted to differentiate its bullion program from the more common .999 fine products flooding the market from competing sovereign mints in the late 2010s.
At this weight, die pressure and cooling time make surface consistency genuinely difficult. Known to exhibit minor flow lines across large flat fields — a physics problem, not a quality control failure.