Nice item
5
Beautiful design and nice box.
Zhang
Ontario
1 oz. Fine Silver Coin - Five Blessings - Mintage: 8,500 (2014)
1 oz. Fine Silver Coin - Five Blessings - Mintage: 8,500 (2014)
All previous blessings coins have sold out!
Blessings are an integral element of Chinese culture. In offering them with a coin, medal, or other traditional method of well-wishing, the giver expresses to the recipient a wish or hope for their future happiness.Written and spoken Chinese lends itself particularly well to symbolism and double meaning. Through the graphic symbols of the written language and the overlap of similar-sounding words, the culture has evolved a tradition of employing letters, sounds, and images to convey robust messages with amplified meaning. These messages are readily understood within Chinese and Chinese Canadian culture.
This coin features a beautifully coloured and engraved design conferring upon its owner blessings of happiness, success, long life, joy, and good fortune. Order yours today!
Special features:
• This proof-quality 1-ounce 99.99% pure silver coin features a beautifully coloured and engraved design conferring upon its owner blessings of happiness, success, long life, joy, and good fortune.
• A very limited mintage of only 8,500 means that this coin is sure to be sought after by collectors.
• Makes a thoughtful gift or fine collectible.
• Your coin is GST/HST exempt with a limited worldwide mintage.
Design:
This coin features a series of symbolic images representing the traditional Five Blessings of Chinese culture. In a polished crescent on the left side of the coin appear five animals that traditionally connote blessings, including a bat for happiness, a deer for career success, a crane for long life, and two magpies for joy. The right side of the coin is richly decorated with circular imagery overlaid with the Chinese symbol used to offer a wish for good fortune.
Packaging:
Your coin is encapsulated and presented in a Royal Canadian Mint-branded maroon clamshell with a black beauty box.
Did you know…
• The character for "good fortune" is not a formal or spoken word, but rather an ideogram used in some regions to convey a wish or hope for good fortune.
• The number "5" is considered to be of imperial significance and auspicious in Chinese tradition because of the central position of the 9 single digit numbers. "5" is usually used as the number for repeated designs or decorations used in the imperial court of China.
• The concept of "prospects" and the word for bat (fu) are homophones in spoken Chinese. The bat has thus become a well-known symbol for "good prospects."
• The notion of success, particularly emolument or success related to one’s salary, is homophonic with the word for deer in spoken Chinese (lu). The deer is thus used to connote the qualities of endurance, longevity, and grace that provide one with a positive position in life.
• The crane has long been associated with the notion of longevity in Chinese tradition. In art and literature, it is often portrayed in the presence of elders and gods and its white feathers recall the white hair of old age. As a long-lived bird with high status in Chinese imperial tradition, it is an ideal symbol for longevity.
• The word for "joy"—xi—is the first sound in the word for "magpie" (xi que), making the magpie a symbol associated with luck and happiness. When two magpies are portrayed facing one another, as on this coin, the recipient’s happiness is doubled.
Order your coin today!
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Reviews
Love this coin
4
I would have liked a card with the coin to explain the meaning of each symbol of the coin. Instead I have had to print out what I could find on the website, which is kind of tacky when you are giving this as a gift.
Sparky
Kelowna BC
Lucky & good fortune for all.
5
Shoud have 2 Birds for Double Happiness.
mccad8
Calgary, Alberta
A Fantastic, Unique Design!!!
5
A Coin That Will Catch Most Everyone's Eye.
TC
Lincoln
Great detail
4
Another very nice coin with a low mintage. The detail is of a high standard and will compliment any collection of a detected collector. The only issue I have is the cost of this coin, given today's silver rates this coin is 4.5 times its weight in silver thus the cost is on the high side.
Cdn Duke
Central Alberta, Canada
Description is not quite correct ... but
4
The description is not quite correct ... there are two cranes and one magpie, not the other way around ... but the coin is very nice.
Coin-man (not con-man)
Toronto, ON
Great addition to any collection
5
This coin is unique, colorful and just looks really good with my other coins. A lot of thought went into the design and they did a splendid job.
Beth the retiree
Lincoln, CA
75th ann machine gun
5
for my collection. liked the face of the coin with the back ground to the queen made it stand out, the back detail was great
hockey dad
Chico CA
blessing
5
i just liked the design and quality/workmansship
hockey dad
Chico CA
A beautiful coin
5
It's a beautiful finish, nicely sized (substantial, nice to hold) and the concept of "blessings" ties in well with a wedding or special occasion. I recommend this coin as a gift for someone special!
JSMtl
Montreal
1 oz. Fine Silver Coin - Five Blessings - Mintage: 8500 (2014)
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Specifications
- No.133938
- Mintage8,500
- Composition99.99% pure silver
- Finishproof, with colour application
- Weight (g) 31.39
- Diameter (mm) 38
- Edgeserrated
- Certificateserialized
- Face value5 dollars
- ArtistSusanna Blunt (obverse)
