According to tradition, when soldier and pastoralist James Brumby was transferred from Sydney to Van Diemen’s Land in 1801, he was forced to release several horses into the bush. Known as Brumby’s horses and later as ‘brumbies’, the word came to mean wild horses.
Mobs of brumbies that most famously roam the Australian Alps today are descended from lost, abandoned or escaped horses that in many cases belonged to early British settlers like Brumby.
Free, independent, and successfully inhabiting an unforgiving environment, the brumby has become a national icon seen by many as symbolic of our national character.
Struck from 1oz of 99.99% pure silver, the Australian Brumby 2024 1oz Silver Coloured Coin has a maximum mintage of 1,500 and is issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965.
DESIGN
The coin’s reverse portrays a coloured brumby galloping in an arid, barren landscape with spectacular forked lightning in a foreboding sky. The design includes the inscription ‘AUSTRALIAN BRUMBY’, the coin’s weight, fineness, and year-date, and a ‘P125’ mintmark signifying The Perth Mint’s 125th anniversary.
The coin’s obverse bears the Dan Thorne effigy of His Majesty King
Charles III, and the monetary denomination.
- Superb coloured design
- Special ‘P125’ anniversary mintmark
- Australian legal tender
- 99.99% pure silver
- Coloured finish
- Very limited mintage – 1,500
- Numbered certificate of authenticity
- Beautifully illustrated presentation packaging
