The Australian Perth Mint's Year Of The Dragon Silver Coin

Posted by The Popular News Today on Thursday, June 27, 2013

By Freda Watts


The Australian Perth mint unveiled a new coin in their Chinese lunar series of silvers. The silver bullion one-ounce twenty twelve- year of the dragon silver coin was highly anticipated and is extremely rare. It is thus minted entirely from ninety-nine percent pure silver and each of this type of monetary asset is crafted with careful artisanship and captures the beauty and spirit of the legend in epic detail. The legend that embodied power and nobility in ancient china nowadays it represents happiness and success.

These mints are extremely rare as only three hundred thousand of them were minted. The product of limitation during making duplicates the value factor of each individual vintage. They are further attractive due to a government guarantee of weight and purity and this assures collectors.

The vintage made from precious stones is a part of the lunar coins series and is the fifth in the series. The reverse of each of the legend stone vintages depicts a long, scaled, serpentine legend. This is a depiction of power, strength and good luck. It also includes an image of a pearl of wisdom. The inscription year of the dragon is also written, as is the Chinese character for dragon and a'p', which is the traditional Perth mint mintmark.

The face of the valuable legend mints bears an effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the second by Ian Rank-Broadley. The only limited mintage of these vintages are the one ounce year of the legend vintage all other sizes have unlimited mintage.

The twelve-year Chinese lunar calendar traces back to before 2600 B. C. The calendar-imbued mysticism and symbolism. Each year holds a representation of an animal: ox, rat, tiger, dragon, rabbit, snake, horse, monkey, ram, rooster, pig and dog. One part of the five components water, fire, wood, metal and earth characterizes each of the animals. An element and animal is combined animal once every half a decade. According to Chinese tradition, each animal and element has a marked influence on those born under its sign.

In the search for balance, the Chinese believed the legend to be a yang to the yin of the fenguang, which is the Chinese phoenix. The use of the Chinese lunar calendar is mostly for determining festivals but officially, china uses the Gregorian calendar.

The series originally started only in gold coins in nineteen ninety-six, in ninety-nine the series added the precious vintages. Over time, the mint added additional sizes to each series. The twenty twelve age of the legend's series two came in ten kilo, on kilo, ten oz, five oz, one oz and a half oz.

The period of the legend was seen before back in two thousand and was marked by the unveiling of the first year of the dragon silver coin and ended with the pig coin. On 23 January the year of the legend came again and the legend minting system was unveiled.




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