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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Australian Square Kookaburra
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 50 Cents |
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| Reverse description | A naturalistic depiction of a kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) perched facing left on a eucalyptus branch with foliage, rendered in frosted high relief against a mirror-polished field. The legend AUSTRALIAN arcs across the upper field, while the inscription KOOKABURRA / 1/2oz. 999 SILVER / 2004 appears to the right of the bird. The Perth Mint's P mintmark is situated at the lower right, and a beaded border frames the entire design within the square flan. |
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| Mintage | 2004 P - Proof in Cased Capsule - 30,350 |
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The Square Kookaburra series is one of the more unusual product lines the Perth Mint has sustained across multiple decades, distinguished by its non-circular format at a time when square legal tender coins remained a genuine rarity in collector markets. The 2004 issue falls within the Ian Rank-Broadley obverse period, the fourth portrait of Elizabeth II adopted by Australia in 1999.
KM#876 is a low-mintage bullion-adjacent piece — struck in .999 silver but priced and marketed primarily as a collectible rather than a weight-for-weight silver play, given that 15.568g sits well below the one-ounce threshold the Perth Mint reserved for its mainstream Kookaburra bullion dollar series.