Fact or Fiction: Patchwork Platypus 2024 Niue $5 2oz Silver Proof Coin.
In 1799, shortly after colonisation of New South Wales began, English zoologist George Shaw received the pelt of a bizarre new animal from the Great Southern Land. As the first to describe this strange beastie, Shaw declared doubts as to its authenticity. And why wouldnt he? Thies ridiculous specimen had the beak of a duck, the tail of a beaver, webbed feet, a venomous spine, and supposedly...it laid eggs! Preposterous!
