1 oz. Fine Silver Coin - ...
$71.87 USD
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1 oz. Fine Silver Coin - Five Blessings - Mintage: 8,500 (2014)
2014
Mintage 8,500
Archived
1 oz. Fine Silver Coin - Five Blessings - Mintage: 8,500 (2014)
2014
Mintage 8,500
$71.87 USD
Masters Club:
1,000
Status: CAN & US shipping only
Availability:
Out of stock in stores
About
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 robustmessages with amplified meaning. These messages arereadily 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 giftor fine collectible.
• Your coin is GST/HST exempt with a limited worldwide mintage.
Design:
This coin features a series of symbolic images representing thetraditional Five Blessings of Chinese culture. In apolished 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 presentedin 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 "goodprospects."
• 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 deeris 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 portrayedin 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—isthe 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 isdoubled.
Order your coin today!
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 robustmessages with amplified meaning. These messages arereadily 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 giftor fine collectible.
• Your coin is GST/HST exempt with a limited worldwide mintage.
Design:
This coin features a series of symbolic images representing thetraditional Five Blessings of Chinese culture. In apolished 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 presentedin 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 "goodprospects."
• 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 deeris 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 portrayedin 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—isthe 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 isdoubled.
Order your coin today!
Specifications
Product Number
133938
Mintage
8,500
Composition
99.99% pure silver
Weight
31.39 g
Edge
serrated
Certificate
serialized
Face Value
5 dollars
Finish
proof, with colour application
Artist
Susanna Blunt (obverse)
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