Revenant's Kookaburras
1991 S$5

Owner Comments:

The Australian Kookaburras are the only modern silver bullion series I'm aware of that had the denomination change after the run started. The coins from the first two years of the series are therefore odd birds indeed. NGC didn't even include slots for them originally when the Kookaburra registry sets were made available. Most kookaburra collectors and I do consider them a part of the larger kookaburra set, not as a separate seriess/issuance and NGC later added slots for them. For information about the kookaburras (the birds, not the coins) check out the description for the 1992 Kookaburra in this set.

Obverse:
3rd portrait of Queen Elizabeth II facing right wearing the King George IV State Diadem

Designer: Raphael David Maklouf

Reverse:
Kookaburra sitting on a tree branch

Designer: Stuart Devlin

Orientation: Medal alignment