Minted Year Of The Dragon Silver Coin

By Freda Watts


The Perth mint of Australia unveiled a rare and extremely anticipated two thousand and twelve year of the dragon silver coin bullion one-ounce coin. This coin is a part of the Australian lunar series two. Each of the coins is minted from ninety-nine percent pure silver. The Chinese legend depicts power and nobility in ancient china and today symbolizes happiness and success. Each of the twenty twelve special mineral vintages is exquisitely crafted and captures the legend's spirit in stunning detail.

The extreme rarity of the bronze one-ounce legend money is also worth noting. The assets are made rare by the fact that the mint only produced and released three hundred thousand of them. The reduced number of the silvers causes the silvers value to increase exponentially. Each of the monetary asset value is greatly increased because the rarity. The government offers a guarantee on weight and purity to all those who purchase the coins to assure 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 obverse of each of the silver dragon coins displays Ian Rank- Broadley's effigy of her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth the second. However only the mintage of the one ounce legend's vintage is limited all other antiques 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 Chinese mythology, the legend is considered to be the yang, however the counterpart a yin fenguang (Chinese phoenix). However, although officially the Chinese use the Gregorian calendar the lunar dates are still used to find out festivals.

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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