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30000 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Year of the Tiger - Gold Bullion Coin
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A highly detailed, forward-facing portrait of a tiger's head dominates the central field, rendered with fine engraving to convey the animal's fur texture, markings, and commanding gaze. Above the tiger's head, in the upper field, appears the Chinese character 虎 (Tiger). Along the lower arc of the coin, the English legend YEAR OF THE TIGER is inscribed in an elegant serif script. The Perth Mint's mintmark P appears to the right of the tiger's head in the lower field. The design is part of the Perth Mint's Australian Lunar Series II, commemorating the Chinese zodiac Year of the Tiger. |
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Issued to mark the Chinese lunar new year cycle, this is the one-kilogram Perth Mint gold piece scaled up to its most extreme production form — 10 kilograms of four-nines fine gold struck at 180mm across. Perth has produced lunar bullion in this format since the late 1990s, but the ten-kilogram pieces were always mintage-limited to single digits, making secondary market appearances genuinely rare events.
The Year of the Tiger falls every twelve years; the 2010 issue coincides with Perth's second full Lunar Series II cycle, which began in 2008 with refined gold purity specifications tightened from .999 to .9999.