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bold coin displaying much more visible legend than most examples

toned a bold fine to almost very fine and rare

buried in truncation for engraver William Wyon

QEII 2020 gold proof 1oz Bird Paradise PR70 Matte TO TAME THE PROUD THEPapua New Guinea, gold proof Matte 500 Kina, 2020, struck in 999. 9 fine gold, design engraved after Otto Schultz, elaborate bird of paradise perched on branch, head turned left, fan of tail feathers above, beaded border, rev. emblem of Papua New Guinea, date to sides, legend PAPUA NEW GUINEA above, denomination below, 31. 31g. A beautiful type, based on one of the most celebrated colonial designs of the 19th century, graded by PCGS as PR70.