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Kookaburra 2024, 2 ounces gold
It isn’t laughing, it’s calling.Its image, raised high in gold.
2 ounces gold in proof quality and high relief, 2024 issue. The image shows the kookaburra in flight over a gorge, with a snake in its talons.
Kookaburra 2024, 2 ounces gold, side with the kookaburra, image
2 ounces gold in proof quality and high relief, 2024 issue. The image shows the kookaburra in flight over a gorge, with a snake in its talons.
The call
In chorus with the family
koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-kaa-kaa-kaa
In German it is also called Lachender Hans, “laughing Hans”. But what sounds like laughter is a territorial call: it warns other birds to stay away, as the Australian Museum writes.
The family often calls in chorus, above all at dawn and dusk. This is how it tells other kookaburras that its territory is occupied.
In the breeding season other kookaburras help out, usually young birds from the previous one to two years. Everyone in the group shares the rearing, and the parents are believed to pair for life.
At around 42 centimetres and 340 grams on average, it is one of the largest kingfishers. It lives almost everywhere in eastern Australia where suitable trees grow.
The perch
It waits quietly on a perch with a good view, then drops straight down.
Under the loupe
The side with the kookaburra carries the weight, fineness and year, together with the mintmark of the Perth Mint.
On the other side: the effigy of King Charles III by Dan Thorne. The design is by Sean Rogers.
KookaburraThe kookaburra
ReliefThe high relief
EffigyThe effigy
The image up close
The designs
How the years show it
Since 1990 the silver coin has carried the kookaburra, almost every year with a new design. The first was created by Stuart Devlin, who also designed Australia’s first decimal coins of 1966. Here are the years from our range.
2026In flight over the river
2025On the branch, 35 years
2024In flight, with a snake
2023Two kookaburras on the waratah
2022On the birdbath
2021On a eucalyptus branch
2020At dawn, 30 years
2019On a branch by the water
2018Flying in
2017Two on a wooden fence
2016On a fence post
2015On a tree stump
2014On a branch
2013Two on a branch
2012Among eucalyptus leaves
2009In front of rays
The other years are shown as the 1 ounce silver coin.
The image stands out
For the high relief, the Perth Mint strikes with an extra deep die, and the design stands clearly raised above the field. Along with it comes the proof finish with its mirrored field, as the image shows.
Silver
Gold
Proof
High relief
Gilded
Privy mark
In colour
Gold-plated
Incused
Antiqued
How their sizes compare
Gold, from 0.5 grams up to five ounces
0.5 g11.6 mmDesign 2025
1/10 ounce16.6 mm
1/4 ounce20.6 mm
1 ounceDesign 2025
2 ounces36.6 mmDesign 2024
5 ouncesDesign 2023
Silver, from one ounce up to one kilogram
1 ounce40.9 mm
5 ounces50.9 mm
10 ounces75.9 mm
1 kg100.9 mm
At a glance
- Issuing country
- Australia
- Face value
- 200 AUD
- Metal
- gold
- Weight
- 2 ounces
- Fineness
- 999.9/1000
- Diameter
- up to 36.6 mm
- Year
- 2024
- Effigy
- Charles III
- Mint
- Perth Mint
- Quality
- Proof
- Maximum mintage stated by the issuer
- 125 coins
In the evening the family often calls once more in chorus.
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