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2023 $10 Creatures of the Deep 'C' Mintmark One Tenth Oz Gold Proof Coin (features the Memorial Effigy designed by Jody Clark)
Mintage 2023
The Royal Australian Mint celebrates the journeys of scientific endeavours, and the wondrous creasures the CSIRO & Scientists have discovered.
The beautiful gold coral (Chrysogorgia) is a tyhpe of ocotocoral, commonly known as soft corals and see fans. While they may loo like plants, octocorals are colonial animals and exch polyp has 8 (octo) feeding tentacles fringed with fine little branches call pinnules that capture food particles floating in the water.