Australian Kangaroo Silver Coin Mintage Figures
2011 Australian Gold Kangaroo Coin

Silver Kangaroo
Obverse
Value	1 Dollar (face value)
Mass	31.1 g (1.0 troy oz)
Diameter	40.6 mm (1.52 in)
Thickness	3.2 mm (0.13 in)
Edge	Reeded
Composition	99.99% Ag
Years of minting	2015-present
Design	Queen Elizabeth II
Designer	Jody Clark
Design date	2015
Reverse
Design	Red kangaroo jumping
Designer	Dr. Stuart Devlin
Design date	2014

The mintage for the first-year Kangaroo Silver Dollar was set at a maximum mintage of 150,000 coins – and Australia's Silver Kangaroo hasn't looked back since. Over the last twenty-plus years, more than a million legal tender Kangaroo Silver Dollars have been pocketed by collectors all around the world. The 2006 Silver Selectively Gold Plated Kangaroo is the fourth issue in the series and has the lowest mintage, with just 7,500 coins struck.

Minted by the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra, Australia, the Silver Kangaroo coins are legal Australian tender. Each single coin has a face value of one Australian dollar. With a limited mintage annually, the Silver Kangaroo coins attract collectors and investors for their limited number and changing designs. Individual coins ship in flips, lots of 25 ship in mint tubes, lots of 500 ship in mint boxes. Maximum mintage set at 300,000 for global distribution. Contains 1 Troy oz of.999 pure silver. Face value of $1 (AUD) is fully backed by the government of Australia.

The Silver Kangaroo is a silver coin originating from Australia and produced at the Perth Mint. This is a bullion coin meant for investment in silver. An Australian silver kangaroo coin, produced at the Royal Australian Mint (RAM), is collected for its numismatic value. The obverse of the coin always depicts Queen Elizabeth II. The reverse side features a red kangaroo jumping. Unlike the Australian silver koala and silver kookaburra coins, the reverse image does not change every year. The obverse image on the RAM silver coin does change every year. The mintage every year is unlimited, unlike the koala and kookaburra coins which have a maximum mintage of 300,000 and 500,000 respectively.^[1] No special editions or privy marks have appeared for the one-ounce bullion coin.^[2]

Mintage figures^[2]
Year	Mintage
2015	300,000
2016	11,245,615
2017	5,178,016
2018	4,395,517

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General

2020 Standard Catalog of World Coins - 1901–2000, 47th Edition, publication date 2019, Krause Publications, ISBN978-1-4402-4896-2
2020 Standard Catalog of World Coins - 2001–Date, 14th Edition, publication date 2019, Krause Publications, ISBN978-1-4402-4897-9

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Australian Kangaroo Silver Coin Mintage Figures

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Australian Silver Kangaroo Coins

Australian Silver Kangaroos are a very desirable coin for collecting, thanks to their reliable purity and silver content (their usefulness as a bullion coin) as well as their beauty and collectible character. They have been designed purely with the collector in mind, with each year bearing different artwork, and issues consisting of a mix of frosted uncirculated coins and proofs. Some years have substituted gilding for frosting.

It is possible to buy Australian Silver Kangaroos directly from the Royal Australian Mint website. The shopping pages are similar to those on shopping sites like Amazon and millions of others – add items to your cart, then check out with a credit card. The website also lists Australian sources for these coins. Outside the continent, you will need to find a reputable dealer who carries Kangaroos.

Properties of the Australian Silver Kangaroo

The Australian Silver Kangaroo is, in keeping with international standards, a one troy ounce silver bullion coin – a measure which is likely to remain timeless even in the event of a complete triumph by the metric system (in metric terms, the Kangaroo weighs in at 31.1 grams). Its diameter is 1.5 inches (40 mm) like most of its argent kin across the world, and its thickness about 0.12 inches (2.85 mm). The edges of the coin are reeded, in the same manner as American quarters.

The silver fineness of the Australian Silver Kangaroo is 99.9% pure silver, making it the equal of the vast majority of the world’s coins and inferior in purity only to Canadian Silver Maple Leaves. All Silver Kangaroos have a $1 Australian nominal face value, though they are obviously worth considerably more on both metallurgical and numismatic grounds. The coins have been in production from 1993 to the present day, with annual mintages ranging from 8,000 to nearly 73,000 uncirculated coins, plus additional proofs.

The obverse of all Australian Silver Kangaroos depicts the profile of Queen Elizabeth II, looking rather smug and facing to the right. The image has remained the same since 1993, and is an effigy by Raphael Maklouf. The coins all bear the inscriptions “Elizabeth II” and “Australia” with the year following it, wreathed about the edge, on the obverse.

The reverse of the Australian Silver Kangaroo is where the creativity of the mint officials and their artists comes to the fore. Each year shows a different image. Among the many depictions of kangaroos that have appeared over the years, there are half-stylized, half-realistic silhouettes of a jumping kangaroo (sometimes rendered as a tiny figure against a flat horizon and a setting sun), highly detailed and naturalistic images of one or more kangaroos, or sometimes wallabies, and the almost cubist creations of Aborigine artists. The legend “One Dollar” always appears on the coins, but there may also be “One ounce fine silver”, “1 ounce fine silver”, or “1 ounce of fine silver”, depending on year.

Australian Silver Kangaroos are released in two forms – uncirculated, with frosting, and proofs. The frosting is sometimes on the figure of the kangaroo, and sometimes on the background. A frosted background is referred to as “reverse frosting”, with the position of the frosting depending on what is deemed most aesthetically pleasing with each individual design.

History of the Australian Silver Kangaroo

The island continent of Australia has a highly distinctive set of wildlife dwelling in its varied habitats, from the sturdy, comical wombats to the high-leaping kangaroos. It is these latter beasts which are perhaps the best known living emblem of Australia. Standing upright much of the time on a pair of powerful hind legs adapted for leaping, raising their young, or “joeys”, in a marsupial pouch, and moving across the southern hemisphere grasslands and scrub with leaps of up to thirty feet (9 meters), kangaroos are a pleasant, unique part of the landscape which are well known around the world.

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Australian Kangaroo Silver Coin Mintage Figures

Australian Silver Kangaroo Coins

Properties of the Australian Silver Kangaroo

History of the Australian Silver Kangaroo