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50 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Year of the Rabbit - Silver Bullion Coin
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed depiction of a rabbit is shown in profile, gazing upward, rendered with fine naturalistic detail against a plain field. To the right of the central motif appears the Chinese character 兔 (rabbit), referencing the Lunar Year of the Rabbit. The date 1999 is displayed across the upper field, while the lower portion bears the inscriptions P100, 1/2 OZ, and 999 SILVER, denoting the Perth Mint privy mark, the silver weight, and the purity of the coin. |
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Australia's lunar bullion series launched in 1996 under Perth Mint, deliberately positioned as a competitor to the Chinese Panda and American Eagle programs that had dominated the silver bullion market through the late 1980s and 1990s. The Rabbit year fell in 1999, the fourth release in the series, at a point when Perth was still establishing collector confidence in annual design changes as a viable long-term strategy.
KM#501 carries Ian Rank-Broadley's fourth portrait of Elizabeth II, introduced across Australian coinage in 1998.