2015 $10 Kangaroo Explorer's First Sightings 1/10oz Gold Proof Coin Silver - 4oz Proof/Antiqued Lest we forget

Lest we forget

bombing of Darwin and submarine attacks in Sydney Harbour in 1942 instilled fears that the Australian mainland faced a Japanese invasion

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The inscriptions AUSTRALIA and LORD HOWE ISLAND GROUP are also incorporated in the design with The Perth Mint’s ‘P’ mintmark

2015 $10 Kangaroo Explorer's First Sightings 1/10oz Gold Proof Coin Silver - 4oz Proof/Antiqued Lest we forgetTo early Australian settlers, kangaroos were a curiosity. They were depicted in words and artworks which seem inaccurate today but are filled with the beauty of these animals capturing peoples imaginations. Woodthorpes hand coloured engraving was published in George Barringtons A Voyage to Botany Bay, where he described kangaroos as, about the size of a common deer, of a dark tan colour its hind legs are much longer than the fore, and with them they