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5 Dollars - Charles III 1st Portrait - Year of the Snake, Gold
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed depiction of a snake coiled sinuously around upright bamboo shoots, rendered in high relief against a plain field. The serpent's scales are finely detailed, conveying naturalistic texture and movement as it ascends the bamboo stalks. To the right of the central motif, the Chinese character '蛇' (snake) appears above the English inscription 'SNAKE', with the year '2025' below. The Perth Mint 'P' mintmark appears to the left in the lower field. |
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| Mint | Perth Mint, Australia (1899-date) |
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Australia's lunar coin program has run continuously since 1996, cycling through the twelve-year zodiac calendar and now well into its third full rotation. The Year of the Snake falls in 2025, a year associated in Chinese tradition with wisdom and strategic patience — attributes that have made the lunar series a consistent draw among Southeast Asian collector markets, where the Perth Mint has long directed significant sales infrastructure. This third-cycle iteration also marks the first appearances of the Charles III obverse across the full lunar range, a transition that began after the September 2022 accession and worked through existing coin programs as dies were updated.