Fact or Fiction: Patchwork Platypus 2024 Niue $5 2oz Silver Proof Coin Ireland Macquarie provided an important vision

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Fact or Fiction: Patchwork Platypus 2024 Niue $5 2oz Silver Proof Coin Ireland Macquarie provided an important visionIn 1799, shortly after colonisation of New South Wales began, zoologists in Britain received the pelt of a bizarre new animal Instantly, they decried "Hoax!"! And, why wouldn't they? This absurd specimen had the beak of a duck, the tail of a beaver, webbed feet, a venomous spine, and supposedly it laid eggs! Preposterous! So it is, that before Australia was even named, the nation had been accused of perpetrating hoaxes on the world. In the animal