2022 Great Southern Blue Lepidolite 1oz Silver Proof

This beautiful coin features the great southern Australian continent in stunning Australian blue lepidolite. Since antiquity, European philosophers speculated that a large continent existed in the Southern Hemisphere.

'Terra Australis' was the term coined to describe the posited great south land which different navigators explored in parts until Royal Navy cartographer Matthew Flinders completed the first circumnavigation of the island-continent now known as Australia in 1803.

The 99.99% pure silver $1 1oz reverse features a blue lepidolite insert in the shape of the Australian continent.

It is encircled with representations of an Australian wedge-tailed eagle; a kookaburra; a splendid fairy wren; a blue banded bee; a birdwing butterfly; a sugar glider; a sulphur crested cockatoo; and a willie wagtail. The background is composed of native flora motifs.

• Authentic Blue Lepidolite design
• Encapsulated & Cased
• Mintage 5000
• FDC (Proof)