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8 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - Year of the Rooster - Silver Coloured
| Issuer | The Perth Mint |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Weight | 155.5 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a vibrant coloured scene depicting a proud rooster standing upright to the right, rendered in vivid polychrome enamel with iridescent green, blue, and red plumage, accompanied by a brown hen and three yellow chicks in the foreground. Stylised foliate branches and bamboo-like vegetation occupy the upper and right portions of the field in uncoloured relief. The Chinese character for rooster, 雞, appears in the upper left field, with the Perth Mint's P mintmark below it. The legend YEAR OF THE ROOSTER is inscribed in a flowing script along the lower periphery. |
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| Reverse lettering | 雞 P Year of the Rooster |
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Australia's lunar series coinage has been a Perth Mint staple since 1996, with the Rooster year falling in the second full cycle. The 2017 issue was struck to a mintage cap of 8,000 pieces worldwide — modest by bullion standards, tight enough to matter for the series collector. At five troy ounces of four-nines fine silver, it sits above the standard one-ounce issues that dominate the secondary market.
The fourth portrait of Elizabeth II, sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley, was already approaching the end of its official use by 2017; Jody Clark's fifth portrait had been adopted by the Royal Mint in 2015, though Australian coins continued with Rank-Broadley considerably longer.