10 Dollars - Elizabeth II 3rd Portrait - Red-tailed Black Cockatoo - Piedfort

Features

Issuer	Australia
Queen	Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type	Non-circulating coins
Year	1997
Value	10 Dollars 10 AUD = USD 7.13
Currency	Dollar (1966-date)
Composition	Silver (.925)
Weight	40 g
Diameter	34 mm
Thickness	5.1 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 188308
References	KM# 367.2 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).

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Commemorative issue

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo

Series: Australia's Endangered Species

Obverse

3rd portrait of Queen Elizabeth II facing right wearing the King George IV State Diadem

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ELIZABETH II
AUSTRALIA 1997
RDM

Designer: Raphael David Maklouf

Reverse

Cockatoo perched on branch of a dead tree, name of bird to the right and denomination to the left.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
RED-TAILED BLACK COCKATOO
10 DOLLARS
VG

Designer: Vladimir Gottwald

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Royal Australian Mint, Canberra, Australia (1965-date)

Comments

This coin is a piedfort version of KM#367.1 and is part of a series of four Sterling Silver (.925) Proof coins released by the RAM to highlight Australia's Endangered Species.

In bush folklore, the cry of the South-eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne is reputed to herald rain - making them a welcome sight in rural Australia. Found in eucalypt woodlands or along watercourses, the south-eastern subspecies has been reduced to a fragmented population of fewer than 1000 birds, and is threatened by the clearing of the trees in which they nest. Illegal bird trappers are also thought to be reducing the numbers of the attractive bird.

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Date			Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1997			14 000							$ 110		Proof - Piedfort

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Actual silver weight: 1.190 oz

Current silver price: 72.98 USD/oz (see silver price

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Katz Auction 141 Lot 2962	25 Oct 2024	UNC	USD 53.40 (EUR 46.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Katz Auction 131 Lot 2636	26 Jun 2024	UNC	USD 38.31 (EUR 33.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Katz Auction 116 Lot 1528	9 Mar 2024	UNC	USD 52.24 (EUR 45.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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