Australian Lunar Series III 2023 Year of the Rabbit Silver Proof Coin

Country: Cook Islands
Year: 2015
Face Value: 5 Dollars
Metal: Silver
Fineness (purity): 925/1000
Weight: 25g
Diameter: 38.61 mm
Quality: Proof
Mintage: 2.000 psc

Second coin in series, the Shades of Nature Butterfly: the laser technology creates intricate details and matt finish on coin surface. The coin is a superb example of micro minting. The butterfly, with all its details, seems to be real!

The coin reverse depicts a dual-color image of a high detailed butterfly. The silver coin is created in laser micro minting technology. Laser technology has become an indispensable tool in numerous branches of industry and is ideally suited to create intricate detail and matt finish on metal surfaces. We strikingly demonstrate the possibilities of laser surface refinement on our newest release – the Shades of Nature Butterfly. The coin obverse depicts the effigy of Her Majesty Elizabeth II.

The Butterfly
The Blue Nawab or Polyura schreiber is a butterfly which is mainly found in Singapore but also in other tropical areas in Asia. The colourful insect stands out with its eye catching pattern and a wingspan of up to 115 mm.
The green caterpillars are particularly remarkable. They weave a silk resting place on a few leaves of the plant they inhabit. This is where they rest during the day, in order to recover from their nightly feasting tours.

Country – Tuvalu
Year – 2024
Face Value – 4 x 1$ TVD
Metal – Silver .9999
Weight – 4 x 1 oz
Size – 52,28 x 31,6 mm
Quality – Proof
Mintage – 1500 sets

The coloured artistry of each coin in this set come together to create a seamlessly blended image. The top coin depicts Ao Shun, the Black Dragon, on top of a mountain; the right-hand coin depicts Ao Guang, the Azure Dragon, near a rocky waterfall; the bottom coin depicts Ao Qin, the Red Dragon, splashing in a river; the left-hand coin depicts Ao Run, the White Dragon, with forked lightning in the sky.
This coin portrays the official Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Obverse, featuring the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy supplemented with the dates of Her Majesty’s reign – ‘1952 – 2022’.