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500 Dollars - Charles III 1st Portrait - Australian Koala - Gold Proof High Relief
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | High-relief effigy of King Charles III facing left, uncrowned and draped, rendered in the first official portrait for Australian coinage as designed by Dominic Tatcher. The legend CHARLES III arcs along the upper left field and AUSTRALIA along the upper right, separated by raised dot stops, with the denomination 500 DOLLARS inscribed along the lower arc. The engraver's initials DT appear incuse at the truncation of the bust. The portrait is set against a deeply mirrored proof field, characteristic of Perth Mint high-relief production. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Australian Koala gold series began in 1980 and remains one of the Perth Mint's flagship bullion programs, but the proof high-relief strikes occupy a different tier entirely — the dies are cut deeper and the planchets struck multiple times at lower pressure to pull up fine detail that a standard bullion strike cannot achieve. At 155.533 grams, this is a five-troy-ounce piece, a format the Perth Mint has used selectively to anchor the top of annual proof sets.
Charles III's first portrait, sculpted by Jody Clark, made its Australian coinage debut across the 2023–2024 transition issues following the necessary re-tooling after Elizabeth II's September 2022 death.