2026 1oz Perth Mint Gold Emu Coin

Description

Few creatures capture the spirit of Australia’s vast interior quite like the emu. Revered in Indigenous culture for thousands of years, it has outlasted ice ages, endured the punishing heat of the outback, and somehow made itself at home everywhere from coastal scrub to alpine meadow. It cannot fly, but at 50 km/h it has little need to. It simply covers ground, relentlessly, magnificently.

Jennifer McKenna’s reverse design for this coin catches one mid-stride across an open paddock, a weatherboard barn and a windmill rising in the background, the classic geometry of rural Australia. There’s real energy in the image. The bird is moving, leaning into it, covering ground. It feels less like a portrait and more like a glimpse, the kind of sighting you get from a ute window on a long dirt road, there and then gone.

Struck in 31.105 grams of 99.99% pure gold, the coin carries its subject’s authority in every gram. A micro-laser engraved authentication mark, visible only under magnification, is embedded discreetly in the reverse – a detail as quietly confident as the bird itself.

With a maximum mintage of just 5,000, this is a coin that will sell out fast. Like the emu at the fence line, it passes through and then it’s gone.

Available to purchase at Jaggards, proud Perth Mint authorised distributor for over 40 years.