Set Description:
The Silver Kookaburra is a silver bullion coin originating from Australia, and produced at the Perth Mint starting in 1990. The coins were .999 fine silver until the 2018 edition, which increased in purity to .9999 silver. While the obverse of the coin always depicts Queen Elizabeth II, the reverse side changes every year, always featuring a kookaburra, a bird native to Australia. Due to the yearly design change and limited production of the one ounce coins, they have higher collectible value than some other bullion coins. The Perth Mint generally ships the BU coins in individual plastic capsules. One-ounce coins ship in shrink wrap rolls of 20, with 5 rolls in each box of 100.
Special editions such as proof, high relief, privy marked, colored, and gilded are often scarce considering the mintages and the quantity of the top grade coins in existance.
The maximum mintage of the one troy ounce BU coin is capped, while the other BU sizes (2oz, 10oz and kilos) have unlimited mintage based on demand. Perth Mint originally intended to expand the 2013 1oz BU mintage to one million coins, however they later reduced this number to 500,000 and declared that future years would continue to be limited to this amount.
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