A numismatist displays a newly-released gilded Australian koala dollar coin, featuring the arboreal marsupial and joey resting in the fork of a eucalypt, as the local currency continued to soar above parity with the US dollar in Sydney yesterday. The pure silver proof retails for $104 and carries the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse side.

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