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

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

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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’.

Features

  • Country:

    Australia
  • Year:

    2015
  • Denomination:

    10
  • Weight:

    1/10oz
  • Metal:

    Gold
  • Quality:

    Proof
  • Mintage:

    1 500
  • Mint:

    Royal Australian Mint
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