2023 $5 Beauty Rich Rare Twelve Apostles 1oz Silver Domed Coloured Coin

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2023 $5 Beauty, Rich & Rare - Twelve Apostles Silver 1oz Coloured Domed Proof Coin

Mintage 7,500

The Beauty Rich & Rare series continues with this Third release from the Royal Australian Mint featuring Victoria's Twelve Apostles in all their majestic & rugged grandeur.

These towering limestone stacks, formed by millennia of waves crashing onto the shoreline, are featured on this beautiful coloured coin.

Australia's First Nations people likely had their own name for what we now call the Twelve Apostles, the cluster of towering limestone stacks located on Victoria's southern coastlline.  These stunning columns were formed ovr thousands of years by erosion from waves crashing onto the shoreline, steadily eroding the softer limestone.  At no times since European settlement have there been more than 8 Apostles in the feature, now just seven following the collapse of one stack in 2005.

How exactly they become to be named as the Twelve Apostlesis still somewhat of a mystery.  English Explorer George Bass named them the Sow and Piglets.  Others called them The Pinnacles.  The enduring name, the Twelve Apostles, emerged in the 1880s.