Monday, 1 July 2013

The Australian Perth Mint's 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.

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 legendery twenty twelve mint is a part of the lunar minted series two and is the fifth in the series. The back of the valuable mints bears the image of a long scaled, snakelike legend. It represents power, strength and good fortune. There is also an image of a wisdom pearl engraved on the ware. The Chinese legend character, an inscription of the time of the legend and a 'p' to represent the 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.

With the Chinese calendar dating back to twenty six hundred B. C, it embodies plenty of mystery and is symbolic. It is a twelve-year calendar and an animal represents each. The rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and pig represent the years. The five key elements represent the year's fire, earth and water, wood and metal. An animal and an element are combined every sixty years. In Chinese tradition, it was believed that a person drew influence from the period in which they were born.

The Chinese believed that the legend was the representation of yang whereas the compliment yin was the fenguang (Chinese phoenix). The Gregorian calendar is still used officially in china but the lunar calendar is still used to determine 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.

This would be the second series of the lunar calendar vintage. The first of this lunar series was featured in the period two thousand which was the period of the highly valued mineral antique. At one ounce, these special vintages was part of this series. The series ended with the unleashing of the silver year of the dragon silver coin of the pig mints. The beginning of the 2012-time of the legend mints as on 23 of January and this period is when the second type of vintage was unveiled.




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