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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Frilled Neck Lizard - Gold Bullion Coin
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed depiction of a Frilled Neck Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) in a defensive display posture, mouth agape and neck frill fully extended, positioned atop a rocky outcrop with native grasses to the right. The series title DISCOVER AUSTRALIA arcs along the upper rim with the date 2008 below it. The legend FRILLED NECK LIZARD 1/25oz. 9999 GOLD curves along the lower rim. The Perth Mint's P mintmark appears to the right of the central device, and the engraver's initials SB are visible in the lower field near the lizard's tail. |
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Part of Perth Mint's long-running Australian Nugget and nature bullion series, this small-denomination gold piece belongs to a reptile sub-series that leaned into international collector appetite for Australian fauna during the mid-2000s bullion boom. The frilled neck lizard had already achieved a degree of global recognition after appearing on the Australian two-cent coin from 1966 until that denomination's withdrawal in 1992 — a piece of numismatic continuity that was almost certainly not accidental.
At one-twenty-fifth troy ounce, the denomination is nominal; no one was spending these at face value.