2023 Niue $2 Fact or Fiction: Patchwork Platypus 1oz Silver Proof Coin

The Coin Company is proud to present 2023 Niue $2 Fact or Fiction: Patchwork Platypus 1oz Silver Proof Coin. 

In 1799, shortly after colonisation of New South Wales began, zoologists in Britain received the pelt of a bizarre new animal... Instantly, they decried "Hoax!"! And, why wouldn't they? This absurd specimen had the beak of a duck, the tail of a beaver, webbed feet, a venomous spine, and supposedly... it laid eggs! Preposterous!

So it is, that before Australia was even named, the nation had been accused of perpetrating hoaxes on the world. In the animal kingdom, this Fact or Fiction conundrum includes such creatures as the Yowie, the big black cats of the bush, the Drop Bear, and even mainland remnants of the extinct Tasmanian Tiger. Plus, of course, the utterly absurd duck-billed, beaver-tailed, egg-laying mammal, the Platypus.

2023 Niue $2 Fact or Fiction: Patchwork Platypus 1oz Silver Proof Coin has a limited mintage of 300 coins.