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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Year of the Dog - Gold Bullion Coin
| Issuer | Perth Mint |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ian Rank-Broadley |
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| Obverse description | Fourth crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, as sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara. The legend ELIZABETH II AUSTRALIA 5 DOLLARS encircles the portrait, with the engraver's initials IRB appearing below the truncation. The design is set within a beaded inner border. |
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| Mintage | 2006 - BU - 15,737 2006 - BU - Colored - 21,701 |
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The Perth Mint's lunar series bullion program, launched in 1996, operates on strict annual mintage caps that are set and publicly declared before striking begins — a policy that distinguishes it from many sovereign mints that retroactively adjust figures. The 2006 Dog issue was capped at 30,000 pieces across this 1/20 oz denomination, a ceiling the mint did not always reach in the early years of the series.
Gold at .9999 fineness rather than the more common .9999 used by the Canadian Maple Leaf was, at the time, a deliberate point of competitive differentiation in the Asian bullion market, where Perth has maintained distribution partnerships since the 1980s.