A woman who disappeared earlier this month in the rugged mountains of southeastern Australia has been found alive, police said, and  she is hospitalized after sustaining what authorities believe was a snake bite. Officials said the woman was stable and recovering from her injuries.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation and BBC News, a CBS News partner, have identified the woman as Lovisa “Kiki” Sjoberg, a photographer who visited Kosciuszko National Park often to take pictures of wild horses in the region. 

The 48-year-old was reported missing to officers from the Monaro Police District near Kosciuszko National Park on Oct. 21, prompting a widespread search operation, the New South Wales Police Force said. The massive park is known for its wild alpine landscape that covers about 270,000 square miles of land, which is roughly the size of the state of Texas.

Search teams and law enforcement set up a command post in Kiandra, an abandoned gold mining town in a remote part of the national park’s Snowy Mountain region, police said. Officers from several different agencies worked with Australia’s National Parks and Wildlife Service, Rural Fire Service and members of the public to search the area, with additional help from police dogs and a rescue helicopter.

A parks and wildlife officer found the woman just before 5 p.m. local time Sunday on the Nungar Creek trail at Kiandra, which is a stop along the hiking route. 

“She was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics for exposure and what is believed to be a snake bite, before she was taken to Cooma District Hospital in a stable condition,” police in a statement.

Before being found, Sjoberg was last seen driving a rental car in the park on Oct. 15, the BBC reported. The rental company flagged the incident to police on Oct. 21 after noticing the car had not moved for six days and was overdue for return.

Monaro Police District Superintendent Toby Lindsay told media that Sjoberg was “dazed and injured” and “quite unwell” when they finally located her, according to the Australian broadcaster and BBC News.

“She advises she was bitten by a copperhead snake four days before being found and also rolled her ankle and she was suffering from dehydration,” Lindsey said, noting that the woman had been “wandering” for days through challenging bushland terrain. 

According to the Australian Museum, copperhead snakes have powerful venom and “a bite from an adult of any of the species may be potentially fatal without medical assistance.”

“She’s in fact very fortunate to be alive … she obviously went through a tough time,” Lindsay added. The superintendent said after the woman’s rescue that she was in a “reasonable condition” and “happy to be alive.”

CBS News contacted the New South Wales Police Force for more information.

An extraordinarily rare dime whose whereabouts had remained a mystery since the late 1970s has sold for just over $500,000.

The coin, which was struck by the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1975, depicts President Franklin D. Roosevelt and is one of just two known to exist without its distinctive “S” mint mark.

Three sisters from Ohio inherited the dime after the death of their brother, who had kept it in a bank vault for more than 40 years.

The coin sold for $506,250 in an online auction that concluded Sunday, according to Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections, an auction house based in Irvine, California. The auction house said there were 212 bids placed on the coin.

The only other known example of the “1975 ‘no S’ proof dime” sold at a 2019 auction for $456,000. Shortly after that, the coin sold for $516,000 to a Roosevelt Dime collector, who currently has the only complete collection of the series, the auction house said.

The mint in San Francisco made more than 2.8 million special uncirculated “proof” sets in 1975 that featured six coins and were sold for $7. Collectors a few years later discovered that two dimes from the set were missing the mint mark.

Russell said the sisters from Ohio, who wanted to remain anonymous, told him that they inherited one of those two dimes but that their brother and mother bought the first error coin discovered in 1978 for $18,200, which would amount to roughly $90,000 today. Their parents, who operated a dairy farm, saw the coin as a financial safety net.

When Russell told one of the sisters just a few years ago about the coin’s potential value, he said she remarked “is that really possible?”

While there is a chance more examples of the rare dime are out there, they would only be found among the 1975 “proof” sets and not in anyone’s pocket change, Russell said.

Still, he said he expected the latest discovery to set off a lot of searching.