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The annual Australian Kookaburra silver bullion coin series portrays different interpretations of Australia’s most famous native bird. Now that The Perth Mint has declared the final mintage for each release issued between 1990 and 2012, collectors and investors can easily identify the rarest releases in the program thus far.

Top Five Rarest 1oz Coins

1oz coins are traditionally the most sought-after and have frequently met their maximum mintage*. These issues, on the other hand, are the five rarest 1oz Kookaburras by numbers produced.

(*1990-2010 – 300,000.  2011-2012 – 500,000.)

Very Low Mintage 2oz Coins

Relatively low levels of interest led The Perth Mint to abandon annual 2oz Kookaburras from 2010. Of those issued between 1992 and 2009, these coins account for the five lowest mintages.

For a complete list of final mintages, including data for 1 kilo and 10oz Australian Kookaburra silver bullion coins, click here.

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The Australian Kookaburra 1oz silver bullion coin has sold out at The Perth Mint.

The revised maximum mintage of 500,000 coins has been reached and no further 2013-dated 1oz Kookaburras will be manufactured.

Retail investors interested in acquiring this year’s design, however, may still buy 10oz and 1 kilo Kookaburra coins direct from the Mint.

Australian Koala

To check out the full range of Australian silver bullion coins from The Perth Mint, click here.

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In a move I’m sure will please fans of our annual Australian Kookaburra 1oz silver bullion coin, the mintage of this year’s release has been declared at 500,000.

As you will recall, we previously announced that the 2013 issue would be the first in the program’s 23 year history to have a maximum mintage of 1 million – double the limit for the 2012 release, which sold out.

Demand for the 2013 Australian Kookaburra 1oz silver bullion coin has been extremely strong. To date, we have delivered more than 480,000 of these coins to wholesale and retail clients worldwide.

With less than 20,000 coins remaining within the 2013 declared mintage, we expect to be able to announce sales have reached 500,000 in the very near future – at which point production will cease immediately.

This announcement is a win for those investors and collectors who value the lower mintage number. For consistency going forward, we envisage that that the maximum mintage of 500,000 will be applied to all future 1oz Kookaburra releases.

During this period of heightened demand for bullion, the decision to declare this year’s release allows us to focus production of the unlimited Australian Koala 1oz silver bullion coin. Additionally, it fits with our long-term strategic plans for the complete silver bullion coin program.

To secure your 2013 Australian Kookaburra 1oz silver bullion coin while stock last, please click here.

WEBSITE INFORMATION

There has been a tremendous surge of demand for Perth Mint products since the dramatic dip in the price of bullion.

To ensure we can satisfy demand for our most popular products as effectively as possible, The Perth Mint factory is now focussed on manufacturing the following silver bullion coins:

  • 2013 Australian Kookaburra 1oz silver bullion coin
  • 2013 Australian Koala 1 kilo silver bullion coin
  • 2013 Australian Kookaburra 1 kilo silver bullion coin

Other Silver Bullion Coins Available While Stocks Last

The streamlined product range means that production of other Australian Lunar, Kookaburra and Koala silver bullion coin sizes is temporarily suspended.

However, we still have stocks of temporarily suspended products available on our website for immediate purchase.

Stocks are limited and new stock will not be arriving until the temporary suspension is lifted.

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This year The Perth Mint will be releasing three silver bullion coins featuring privy marks.

Traditionally, a privy mark is a small mark of differentiation in the design of a coin added for the purpose of identifying the mint.

The Perth Mint revived the ancient practice with a memorable series of silver bullion Kookaburra releases during the 1990s.

This year we are issuing Australian Kookaburra and Australian Lunar silver bullion coins featuring the addition of privy marks.

Each release is individually approved in law as a new Australian legal tender coin with its own mintage arrangement. (see Mintage Policy – 3. Coin Variations).

The 2013 releases, which will appear in February, comprise:

1oz Australian Lunar Snake with Bavarian Lion Privy Mark

 - Maximum mintage: 100,000
 - Manufactured for distribution by one of our wholesale clients based in Germany.

 
1oz Australian Kookaburra with Snake Privy Mark

- Maximum mintage: 50,000
- Manufactured for distribution by wholesale clients based in the United States and Germany.

 

1oz Australian Kookaburra with F15 Privy Mark

- Maximum mintage: 15,000
- Manufactured exclusively for the Europe-based distributor of the Fabulous 15 Silver Coin program.

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I announced details of our new Mintage Policy in November. There has been an update to the information I provided then, which I’d like to inform you about now.

Previously I said that the Mint reserved the right to manufacture each 1oz release from the Australian Kookaburra silver bullion coin series up to its individual maximum mintage.

What others have called a “re-striking”, however, no longer applies.

Having listened to a great deal of customer feedback, the policy has been amended so that we will no longer be making past 1oz Kookaburras that undersold their maximum mintage.

As a result, we have closed production and declared final mintages for all 1oz Kookaburras and other unlimited denominations released between 1990 and 2012. We have published the figures in the following document:

 • The Australian Kookaburra Silver Bullion Coin Series 1990-2013

Please refer to these recently updated documents for further declared mintages:

 • The Australian Koala Silver Bullion Coin Series 2007 – 2013

 • The Australian Lunar Silver Bullion Series Two 2008 – 2013

 • The Australian Lunar Gold Bullion Series Two 2008 – 2013

These documents can be found on our corporate website under Bullion Mintages.