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THE ROYAL Australian Mint has announced the creation of a new set of coins as part of the Echoes of Australian Fauna series.
Made from nickel and decorated with images of gold-plated native animals, the coins feature the thylacine in bushland, the night parrot in its nest and the lesser bilby in desert grasslands.
‘Benjamin’, the last known Tasmanian tiger, died on 7 September 1936 at Hobart Zoo. The lesser bilby was an inhabitant of Australia’s driest deserts, and recorded as a living animal on just a handful of occasions between its discovery in 1887 and its extinction in the 1950s. The night parrot is a small ground-dwelling nocturnal parrot only found in Australia. Until very recently it was thought to be extinct – with no confirmed sighting of it for more than 100 years.
(Image credit: Royal Australian Mint)
The coins were unveiled at the 2019 Berlin World Money Fair for the international collectors and the numismatic community (which embraces the study or collecting of coins, medals and paper money), and will be made available to the Australian public in March.
They will be released in three batches: the thylacine on 4 March, the lesser bilby on 6 May and the night parrot in July.
The coins will be available in a limited mintage of 5000, retailing for $140 AUD.
For your chance to win, please tell us in 30 words or less why you’d like to win an Echoes of Australian Fauna Tasmanian tiger coin. There are three to win!
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