Part of Perth Mint's native flora platinum proof series, this issue draws on Australia's long-running program of bullion and numismatic platinum coinage that gained serious collector traction through the 1990s and 2000s. The pad-printing technique used here — applying color directly onto the coin surface rather than through traditional enameling — was still relatively novel in Australian numismatics at the time of issue, and early examples from the series show minor variation in ink adhesion at the petal margins.
Part of Perth Mint's native flora platinum proof series, this issue draws on Australia's long-running program of bullion and numismatic platinum coinage that gained serious collector traction through the 1990s and 2000s. The pad-printing technique used here — applying color directly onto the coin surface rather than through traditional enameling — was still relatively novel in Australian numismatics at the time of issue, and early examples from the series show minor variation in ink adhesion at the petal margins.