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Australia Frilled Neck Lizard

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2010-P Proof Silver One Dollar

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The Frilled Neck Lizard piece was released in 2010 as part of the Perth mint's Discover Australia - Dreaming series. The series celebrated some of Australia's most iconic animals in the style of Indigenous artist Darryl Bellotti. The reverse of this particular coin depicts a stylised Frilled Neck Lizard with a coloured pattern background and the legend 'DISCOVER AUSTRALIA - 2010 FRILLED NECK LIZARD 1OZ 999 SILVER.' The obverse features the Ian Rank-Broadley portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II with the legend 'ELIZABETH II - AUSTRALIA - 1 DOLLAR.'

The frilled neck lizard has become an Australian cultural icon featuring in films, as mascots, and of course on the Australian two-cent coin as designed by Stuart Devlin. The fame of the species comes from its extraordinary frill which usually remains folded to its body but is spread to discourage predators (a deimatic display) and during courtship. The lizard is found mainly in northern Australia and also parts of southern New Guinea where it spends most of its time in trees only coming down mainly for food or territorial conflicts. Although a number of introduced species threaten the lizzard, such as cats and cane toads, they have stable populations and are not considered to be at risk.