2019 kookaburra.... what have they done to the poor queen

[Cornishfarmer]

Cracking design, probably the best for a few years.   But looks like they have gone down the IOM and Canada route and trying to make the queen look daft.   I really hope the lunars and others don’t change to this design 

[Foolssilver]

Love the new design! Not sold on the queen

Will be looking to pick these up however

 

Ps - Post title says 2009 not 2019

[RoughDog]

Don't know but that kook looks like it's on steds.

[FFkook]

OMG, I really enjoy this new design. Any ideas on when they will be available? Will defo be buying the 1 Oz and 10 oz..

[StackemHigh]

Looks like she has a hooked nose and nothing like the queen.

[StackemHigh]

I'm a fan of this kook. Pics look great.

Try the 1oz in hand then maybe a wee proof or two and a 5oz.

[999magnum]

It looks really good. These always look better in hand too.

[kimchi]

First reaction - as a Kook fan, I like it very much! It's both a return to the 'classic' designs after the last three and yet with a modern twist (that doesn't intrude too much) with the ripples on the lake.

It is quite 'busy' though! We shall have to see what the Privys will do on this one. I suspect the foliage on the right will have to be removed (not as big a change as last year, but big enough to remove design for a Privy once again).

11 hours ago, Cornishfarmer said:

But looks like they have gone down the IOM and Canada route and trying to make the queen look daft.

She does that well enough on her own, didn't you see the vid of her visiting the victims of the Manchester concert bomb blast in hospital and asking them if they enjoyed the concert? Or telling one of them 'isn't it lovely'? Mad old mare

9 hours ago, Foolssilver said:

Love the new design! Not sold on the queen

Nor was Philip when the 60s arrived, by all accounts...

[SILVERFINGER]

Not the worst queen I have ever seen by far, someone was on the meth when they modelled this one.

 

 

[JohnA]

We buy these for the bird on the reverse, not the bird on the face

[Bullionaire]

Really like the reverse. 

 

They have ruined the queen a bit though. Their old queen pic looked fine.

[Shinus73]

1 hour ago, SILVERFINGER said:

Not the worst queen I have ever seen by far, someone was on the meth when they modelled this one.

 

 

That looks like a dementor Queen!

[SILVERFINGER]

I liked the queen mum, she always smiled, even though she had black teeth.

[kimchi]

8 minutes ago, SILVERFINGER said:

I liked the queen mum, she always smiled, even though she had black teeth.

And a bottle of gin in her knickers, god bless her

[SILVERFINGER]

Yeah I remember at the time of her death, one royal corgi said to the other, 'I am glad she is dead' , wtf you on about the other says, she spoilt us rotten with treats and petting us, 'yeah well, we wont get the blame anymore for pissing on the furniture'.

[AgCoyote]

Without a doubt the best Kook design in years. I love it.

[sixgun]

The Australian portrait of Queenie was a positive - compared with the pig's ear on Canadian coins. This new one looks quite dodgy.

[SILVERFINGER]

1 hour ago, sixgun said:

The Australian portrait of Queenie was a positive - compared with the pig's ear on Canadian coins. This new one looks quite dodgy.

I think its the most realistic one yet of her.

[jultorsk]

Good design on the Kook! Btw the video on YouTube says Lunar Pig bullion release date would be 10th September and Kooks would be released on 1st October.

[kimchi]

6 hours ago, SILVERFINGER said:

I think its the most realistic one yet of her.

[SILVERFINGER]

I know she used to smile so much more in the olden days.

 

[aussiesilver]

Not yet have one of these in hand.

But it looks as though the tree on the right of the coin might be sitting on a map of Australia

[vand]

I actually really like the design on both sides

[Gildeon]

I like the additional detail in the background.  As for the bird it's not bad but last year's was my favourite.

[kimchi]

8 minutes ago, Gildeon said:

I like the additional detail in the background.  As for the bird it's not bad but last year's was my favourite.

Lat year was quite 'disruptive' to the series - especially the Dog Privy, I liked it a lot too

I thought they were onto a good thing myself with 2016 and 2017 being less stylized, beautiful coins. 2019 is more 'traditional' but also very nice, so another series that it will be very interesting to watch develop!