In Stock and Ready for Immediate Shipment!

No coins are included, sorry, but are available separately.

This listing is for a display box / presentation case ONLY!

IMAGES DEPICT INTENDED USE ONLY.

Each case can hold one (01) Kookaburra 1 oz silver coin in original mint capsule.

But no coins are included with this presentation case.

This listing does not include any coins. Rather, this listing is for a handsome, Perth Mint branded, taupe leatherette, clamshell-style presentation case, lined with black velvet and satin, and protected by a white cardboard outer sleeve. The lid top proudly displays the Perth Mint's iconic swan logo, while the inside of the lid is emblazoned in gold with the selfsame logo and the branding THE PERTH MINT AUSTRALIA.

This case is perfect for housing and displaying any of the Perth Mint's long-running series of Kookaburra 1 oz silver coins in their original, mint-issued round capsule. It can also accommodate other same-sized, 40.6 mm diameter Perth Mint 1 oz silver coins (minted on the same size Perth Mint planchet).

These spiffy cases are perfect for gift-giving, turning a mundane, encapsulated 1 oz silver Kookaburra into an impressive and expensive-looking present. They are new and mint-fresh, direct from Western Australia. Closed, each case measures 3 inches by 3-1/2 inches by 1 inch.

Please note that the Perth Mint piedfort 1 oz silver proofs and the Perth Mint lunar series 1 oz silver coins WILL NOT FIT in this case! Nor will other sizes of Perth Mint silver coins, such as 1/2 oz, 2 oz, etc.

If you have any questions, please ask before purchasing. If you think any coins are included with your purchase, well, we're sorry, they're not. The coins in the images are there to demonstrate the use of the case, as well as how gorgeous the coins look inside the box.

What's So Funny?
The kookaburra is probably the best known bird of Australia. There are actually four species of kookaburra found in Australia and New Guinea. All are members of the Kingfisher family. Far and away the most familiar is the Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae).

Kookaburras are famous for their unmistakable call, which sounds uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter - good-natured, if rather hysterical, merriment in the case of the Laughing Kookaburra; and maniacal cackling in the case of the slightly smaller Blue-Winged Kookaburra (D. leachii). The word "kookaburra" is borrowed from an aboriginal word of the Wiradjura language, "guuguubarra", which is onomatopoeic of (replicates) the avian's call.

Kookaburras are carnivorous. They eat lizards, snakes, insects, mice and raw meat. The more socialized birds will accept handouts from humans and will take raw or cooked meat from open-air barbecues left unattended. Kookas are territorial, and often live with the partly grown chicks of the previous season.

The notoriety of the kookaburra's laugh, as well as its nervy antics, has been spread worldwide by the popular children's song "Kookaburra" by Marion Sinclair. Please see the end of this article for the complete lyrics to the song "Kookaburra".

"Kookaburra" by Marion Sinclair
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh kookaburra, laugh
Kookaburra, gay your life must be

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Eating all the gumdrops that he can see
Stop, kookaburra, stop
Kookaburra, leave some there for me

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Chasing all the monkeys he can see
Stop, kookaburra, stop
Kookaburra, that's not a monkey, that's me!