Birds of Australia: Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, Australia, 2013, 0.5oz

Description

This brand new coin program is inspired by the birds that inhabit the continent of Australia. Because of the nation’s island status, many of these species are unique and breathtakingly beautiful.

The coin is struck by The Perth Mint from 1/2oz of 99.9% silver in proof quality.

The coin’s reverse portrays a Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo in colour perched on a struck wooden log. As well as The Perth Mint’s ‘P’ mintmark, the design also includes representations of Australian vegetation.

The Perth Mint will release no more than 10,000 of these coins.

Issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965, the coin’s obverse depicts the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the 2012 year-date.

The coin is accompanied by a numbered Certificate of Authenticity.

The coin is housed in a classic display case with a delicately coloured, illustrated shipper.