Silver Ounce 2012 Opal - Wombat, Coin from Australia - detailed information

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Australian Opal Series - The Wombat 2012 1oz Silver Proof Coin | The Perth Mint

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Buy the Australian Opal Series – The Wombat 2012 1oz Silver Proof Coin at The Perth Mint, featuring: Authentic Australian Opal New and Innovative Coin Design Proof Quality 99.9% Pure Silver Limited Mintage – 8,000 Australian Legal Tender Numbered Certificate of Authenticity Beautiful Presentation Packaging

The first coin in this spectacular new series sold out, so it’s advisable to move quickly to secure the second release featuring the wonderful wombat. The wombat is a marsupial native to Australia, and known for its determined personality. Wombats are completely herbivorous and feed from a variety of grasses, roots, fungi, shrubs, bark and mosses. The wombat has a backwards-facing pouch, so that while digging burrows, dirt does not spill over its young. New and Innovative Coin Design The coin’s reverse incorporates an inner panel design of a wombat detailed in pure Australian opal. The outer panel of the coin depicts Bottlebrush leaves and blossoms, a waxing crescent moon and the Southern Cross – a renowned star group which is only visible in the Southern hemisphere. Proof Quality 99.9% Pure Silver The coin is struck by The Perth Mint from 1oz of 99.9% pure silver in proof quality. Limited Mintage No more than 8,000 of these coins will be issued by The Perth Mint. Australian Legal Tender Issued as Australian legal tender, the coin’s obverse depicts the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the year-date and the monetary denomination. Numbered Certificate of Authenticity The coin is accompanied by a numbered Certificate of Authenticity. Beautiful Presentation Packaging Presented in a prestigious display case, a light turns on as you open the case, highlighting the opal design and symbolising moonlight, shining down on the nocturnal wombat.

Silver Content (Troy oz): 1
Monetary Denomination (AUD): 1
Fineness (% purity): 99.9
Minimum Gross Weight (g): 31.135
Maximum Diameter (mm): 36.60
Maximum Thickness (mm): 4.50
Designer: Aleysha Howarth
Item ID: 12S17BAA
Issue price: AU$ 126.01, US$ 90.14