1 oz Australian Silver Koala Coin (Random Year)

Australian Silver Koala coins have been minted to order in every year of availability from 2007 to 2015. Starting in 2016, the Perth Mint placed a mintage cap at 300,000 coins for each subsequent year. The highest mintage figure in the series remains the 2011 coin that sold a total of 910,480 coins. The next closest mintages are half that figure and include the 2013 coin with 477,209 coins and the 2015 coin with 450,899 coins.

Changes have come to the Australian Silver Koala in more forms than just the constantly rotating images of the koala on the reverse. From 2007 to 2017, the coins featured .999 pure silver content. In 2018, the Perth Mint increased the purity content of its major silver bullion coins to .9999 pure silver. Additionally, Queen Elizabeth II’s effigy has changed once in the series history as well.

The obverse of 1 oz Australian Silver Koala coins includes a right-profile portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. Coins dated 2007 to 2018 have the Ian Rank-Broadley design introduced in 1998 on British coins and 1999 on Australian and other Commonwealth coins. Since 2019, the series has used Jody Clark’s sixth-generation Australian portrait of Her Majesty.