The Australian Silver Kookaburra series from the Perth Mint began in 1990 and quickly became a favorite among silver buyers. Each year showcases a fresh reverse design of the kookaburra in different settings, so every release feels a little different from the last. Today, we’re offering the 2006 2 oz Australian Silver Kookaburra Coin online at BullionMax.

Coin Highlights:

• Coin arrives in a protective plastic flip!
• 17th release of Silver Kookaburras!
• Final mintage of 12,802 coins!
• Contains 2 troy oz of .999 pure silver in BU condition.
• Issued a face value of $2 (AUD) by Australia.
• Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse.
• Two kookaburras on a branch on the reverse.

For the obverse of the 2006 2 oz Silver Kookaburra, you’ll find Ian Rank-Broadley’s well-known portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. The right-profile bust shows Her Majesty wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara. This effigy appeared on coins across the Commonwealth from 1998 through 2017, making it one of the longest-running portraits of her reign.

On the reverse of the 2006 Australian Silver Kookaburra, the design focuses on a pair of kookaburras. The artwork captures their characteristic stance and open beaks, a nod to the bird’s famous “laughing” call. Both birds sit together on a small branch with heads slightly raised.

Australia has four kookaburra species within the tree kingfisher family Halcyonidae, though they’re better known for hunting on land than for fishing. The laughing kookaburra, native to eastern Australia and introduced to parts of the southwest, is the largest and most recognized. Its loud, human-like call is a familiar sound across the bush.

These 2006 2 oz Australian Silver Kookaburra Coins are offered in Brilliant Uncirculated condition and ship in plastic flips. The Perth Mint set an unlimited mintage in 2006, with final sales landing at 12,802 coins. Among that year’s sizes, the 2 oz edition recorded the second-highest mintage, topped only by the 1 oz release.

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