5 oz Silver Coin - 2022 Great White Shark - Royal Australian Mint

Great White Shark

The second release in Australia's Most Dangerous Animals series depicts the great white shark and continues with a 5 oz Silver version. These apex predators are built for speed with a large torpedo shaped body and powerful tail. The great white shark can grow to 6 meters long and can live as long as 70 years. Of the many dangerous sea creatures, none are more majestic and lethal than the great white. As a top predator, these sharks play a key role in keeping Australian oceans healthy. They have a preferred diet that consists of fish, whales, turtles and seals. Great whites are listed as vulnerable and are protected in Australian waters, with numbers declining likely due to increased shark fishing.

• Obverse: Effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, along with the face value.

• Reverse: Features a great white shark leaping from the ocean with jaws open and vicious teeth on display.

• Sovereign coin backed by the Australian government.
  



Royal Australian Mint

Royal Australian Mint, located in Canberra, is well-known for their popular releases of Domed Proof coins, Lunar coins, and limited mintage bullion releases in both Silver and Gold. The coins range from themes about history, to astronomy, animals, to the Chinese Zodiac. The Royal Australian Mint also produces the circulating coins for Australia. The Mint was first opened in 1965, and the first mint of the country to not be a branch of the Royal Mint. Before Royal Australian Mint was formed, coins for the country were struck at various branches of the Royal Mint - the Sydney Mint, Melbourne Mint, and The Perth Mint.

Presentation & Mintage

This 5oz Silver Bullion Coin is presented in an individual protective acrylic capsule & an individual coin pouch.

No more than 1,000 of these coins will be released.

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