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8 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Australian Koala - Silver Proof High Relief
| Issuer | Perth Mint, Australia |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed, high-relief effigy of an adult koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is depicted in left-facing profile, walking along a eucalyptus branch that extends across the lower portion of the field. The animal's characteristic thick fur, large rounded ears, and prominent nose are rendered with exceptional sculptural detail. Eucalyptus leaves fan across the upper left field, while the legend 'AUSTRALIAN KOALA' arcs along the upper rim. The inscriptions '2016 5oz 999 SILVER' appear in the lower exergue, and the Perth Mint's 'P' mintmark is positioned to the right of the branch. |
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The Australian Koala silver series has run since 2007, but the high-relief strikes represent a technical departure that required significantly more die pressure and slower production rates to achieve the pronounced depth of field. Perth has refined this process incrementally, and by 2016 the results were measurably cleaner than the earliest high-relief issues in the program.
The fifth-ounce denomination structure used here — eight dollars to five troy ounces — is a Perth convention with no real-world exchange function, existing purely to satisfy the legal tender requirement under Australian law for bullion collector issues.