5 oz Gold Kangaroo Nugget 35th Anniversary 2021 PP (Mintage: 75 | Proof)
- Red Kangaroo: colored in radiant wreath
- Perth Mint: renowned mint
- Purest Gold: fineness 999.9
- Red KangarooA leaping red kangaroo before a wreath of rays
- Perth MintBrand new, direct from the mint in Australia
- Purest GoldMade from gold with a fineness of 999.9/1,000
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The Australian Nugget at 35
A nugget above the kangaroo,for 35 years of the series.
Image of the kangaroo side: a leaping kangaroo in a ring of rays, above it a gold nugget, with 35, RED KANGAROO and the years 1986 to 2021, the legend AUSTRALIAN NUGGET COIN
The design
Nugget and kangaroo on one coin
The coin unites both beginnings of the series: Stuart Devlin’s red kangaroo, surrounded by rays of the Australian sun, and, small above it, the Welcome Stranger nugget. With them stands the inscription AUSTRALIAN NUGGET and the years 1986 to 2021.
The red kangaroo
The Welcome Stranger
The 35
The name
Why it is called Nugget
The Welcome Stranger was found by the miner John Deason on 5 February 1869 near Moliagul in Victoria, three centimetres deep among the roots of a tree. He hid the find until dark and then dug it out with his partner Richard Oates. In Dunolly the nugget, then the largest known in the world, had to be broken up on an anvil so that it would fit on the bank’s scales, as Museums Victoria reports.
This nugget and three other famous ones appeared on the first years of the series, in designs by Stuart Devlin. It began as The Australian Nugget.
Then came the kangaroo, according to The Perth Mint an icon of Australia that is more easily recognised all over the world. Since 2008 it has listed the bullion coin as the Australian Kangaroo; we still call the series Kangaroo Nugget, after the name under which it began in 1986.
- 1986The first issue, in proof
- 1989Stuart Devlin’s kangaroo, first on the proof
- 1990The kangaroo on the bullion coin too
The series
A new kangaroo every year
The gold bullion coins up to one ounce receive a new kangaroo every year. In the early years even the species changed, from the red kangaroo in 1990 to the whiptail wallaby in 1994.
There had been a kangaroo on gold in Australia before. In 1853 Reginald Scaife reached Melbourne aboard the clipper Kangaroo, as manager of a private mint, the Kangaroo Office. With purpose-made dies he struck 27 sets of gold tokens, from a quarter ounce to two ounces, dated 1853.
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2025
2026
The finish
An anniversary issue
The Perth Mint issued this coin in 2021 for the 35th anniversary of the Australian Nugget, as a proof.
The obverse bears Queen Elizabeth II. Since 2024 the series has carried King Charles III in the portrait by Dan Thorne.
At a glance
- Issuer
- The Perth Mint
- Face value
- 500 Australian dollars
- Fine weight
- 5 ounces fine gold
- Fineness
- 99.99%
- Diameter
- 50.8 mm
- Year
- 2021
- Mintage
- 75 coins
Details according to The Perth Mint and our product data; the face value as it appears on the coin.
Nugget and kangaroo on one coin.
35 years of the Australian Nugget, in gold.
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