The Perth Mint released the Australian Swan in 2017 with a mintage limited to just 25,000 — a genuinely small debut compared to the Mint's higher-volume Kookaburra and Koala programs. The swan carries a more direct institutional connection to the Mint than most of its other wildlife coins: it's both the Perth Mint's own corporate logo and a symbol on Western Australia's state flag, giving the design real local significance beyond being simply another Australian animal. Like the Kookaburra, Koala, and later Emu and Brumby, the Swan's reverse design changes every year.
The 2017 debut's small 25,000 mintage makes it the natural key date for this series, similar to how a first-year low-mintage coin works across other Perth Mint annual programs. A new buyer should decide whether the swan's specific institutional and symbolic connection to the Mint itself is the draw, or whether they're simply adding another entry to a broader Perth Mint annually-changing-design collection alongside the Kookaburra, Koala, Emu, and Brumby.
The dates serious Swan collectors specifically chase — the rest of the run trades close to melt value.
First year of issue, limited to a mintage of just 25,000 — the swan is both the Perth Mint's own logo and a symbol on Western Australia's state flag, giving this series a more direct institutional connection to the Mint than most of its other wildlife coins.
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Start tracking freeIt's both the Perth Mint's own corporate logo and a symbol on Western Australia's state flag — a more direct institutional connection than most of the Mint's other wildlife coin subjects.
Limited to 25,000 — a notably small first-year run compared to the Perth Mint's higher-volume Kookaburra and Koala programs.
Yes — it follows the same annually-changing-design approach the Kookaburra pioneered, applied here to swan imagery.