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500 Dollars - Charles III 1st Portrait - Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle - Proof High Relief
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#4809 |
| Obverse description | Uncrowned effigy of King Charles III facing left, rendered in high relief after the portrait by Dominic Thomas, occupying the central field. A privy mark depicting a wedge-tailed eagle about to alight upon the branch of a dead tree appears below the portrait. The surrounding legend reads CHARLES III AUSTRALIA with the denomination 500 DOLLARS and the engraver's initials DT disposed around the effigy. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The wedge-tailed eagle series from Perth has run long enough to develop a genuine collector following, but the shift to proof high relief on a five-ounce planchet introduces stacking tolerances that make original mint packaging effectively mandatory for long-term storage — the fields on high-relief strikes at this diameter are unforgiving of contact marks. This is also among the earliest Perth issues to carry Charles III's first portrait, following Jody Clark's effigy approval for Australian coinage after the September 2022 accession.