2015 $10 Kangaroo Explorer's First Sightings 1/10oz Gold Proof Coin

To early Australian settlers, kangaroos were a curiosity. They were depicted in words and artworks which seem inaccurate today but are filled with the beauty of these animals capturing people’s imaginations. Woodthorpe’s hand-coloured engraving was published in George Barrington’s A Voyage to Botany Bay, where he described kangaroos as, ‘about the size of a common deer, of a dark tan colour... its hind legs are much longer than the fore, and with them they leap and spring forward with amazing rapidity’.