Coins capture Kimberley sunset
Three Hale School students visited Perth Mint yesterday to hold a rare Kimberley sunset with a price tag of nearly $9000.
Kyiah O'Donohue, Hezzekiah McCorry and Scott Gore-Birch-Gault represented the East Kimberley at the launch of a limited-edition pink gold coin featuring an Argyle pink diamond.
Priced at $8880, the legal tender coin has an image of an ancient boab tree and the sun - represented by the hand-set diamond.
Perth Mint and Argyle said the boabs and the pink diamonds, formed beneath the trees more than a billion years ago, inspired the coin's imagery.
Pink diamond lovers flock to new gold coin
Only 500 coins will be released and already they have attracted the attention of collectors.
Argyle Pink Diamonds manager Josephine Johnson said the coin was a once-in-a-lifetime release. She said the combination of the rare pink diamonds, the difficulty in gaining Treasury approval for legal tender and the effigy of the Queen on the coin's obverse would not be repeated.
It was the first time in Australia that an Argyle pink diamond had been embedded in a legal-tender coin, Perth Mint wholesale manager Neil Vance said.
