2005 Year of the Rooster 1/20oz Gold Coin in Box (Series I)

2005 Year of the Rooster 1/20oz Gold Coin in Box (Series I)People with this astrological sign are thought to be sociable, very accomplished and usually very well dressed. Shrewd and daring, they are outspoken and even boastful by nature. If you are born within these dates you were born in the year of the Rooster. 26 January 1933 13 February 1934 13 February 1945 1 February 1946 31 January 1957 17 February 1958 17 February 1969 5 February 1970 5 February 1981 24 January 1982 23 January 1993 9 February 1994 9

Issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965

A laughing kookaburra

Translation: The Bank of SpainWill pay the bearerOne Hundred PesetasMadrid

while also highlighting the bureaucratic measures undertaken to maintain order

Reverse (Back)David Unaipon - Aboriginal Australian man of the Ngarrindjeri people

Translation: Whosoever copies or falsifies renten-banknotes or acquires and puts copied or falsified (notes) into circulation will be punished with no less than two years of prison time

the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Zuytdorp was wrecked on a notoriously treacherous part of the Western Australian coast

Key features:

brilliant uncirculated finish

Obverse (Front)Francis Greenway - A convicted forger transported from England to Australia who went on to become Australia's first government architect

Although they were never officially distributed

Mintage of 10