2021 Australia $1 Great Southern Land 1oz Silver Proof Mother of Pearl Coin

2021 Australia $1 Great Southern Land 1oz Silver Proof Mother of Pearl Coin

This certificate accompanies a 2021 Great Southern Land coin. Struck by The Perth Mint from 1oz of 99.99% pure silver in proof quality and featuring an authentic mother of pearl centrepiece, the coin is issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965.
Since antiquity, European philosophers speculated that a large continent existed in the Southern Hemisphere to 'balance' those of the north.
Terra Australis was the Latin term they coined to describe the posited great south land which different maritime explorers discovered in parts until British navigator and cartographer Matthew Flinders completed the first circumnavigation of the continent now known as Australia in 1803.

The Australian coastline extends for approximately 34,000 kilometres. It is bordered in the west by the Indian Ocean and to the east by the Pacific Ocean. Tropical waters of the Timor, Arafura and Coral Seas lap the north coast, while the cold waters of the Southern Ocean lie to the south.
Over millennia, Aboriginal Australians forged deep cultural connections not just with their lands, but also the surrounding seas and the extraordinary diversity of wildlife they support.
The coin's reverse features a central mother of pearl insert in the shape of the Australian continent. It is encircled with representations of iconic marine creatures found in Australian waters, including a great white shark, sea turtle,seahorse, blue-ringed octopus, starfish and stingray. Included on the reverse is the coin's weight, purity and year-date together with The Perth Mint's 'P' mintmark

•The Perth Mint will release no more than 5,000 of the Great Southern Land 2021 1oz Silver

Proof Mother of Pearl Coin.

Silver content: 1oz

Denomination: $1

Fineness: 99.99

Mintage: 5000/4826 

This proof coin is of exceptional quality and comes in its original packaging with a numbered certificate of authenticity.