Murano Monarch Butterfly – Half Kilo Fine Silver Coin

Murano Monarch Butterfly ...

$1,520.36 USD
New

Murano Monarch Butterfly – Half Kilo Fine Silver Coin

Silver 2025 Mintage 800
New

Murano Monarch Butterfly – Half Kilo Fine Silver Coin

Silver 2025 Mintage 800
$1,520.36 USD
Pay up to 6 monthly
installments of $253.39 USD.
Masters Club: 21,000 Status: CAN & US shipping only
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Shipping: Expected to be shipped on May 13

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Specifications

Product Number 249020
Mintage 800
Composition 99.99% pure silver with selective gold plating
Weight 502.5 g
Diameter 85.52 mm
Edge Serrated
Face Value $125
Finish Proof
Packaging Dome capsule, wood base display case with black set up box
Artist Caren Heine (reverse), Steven Rosati (obverse)

Design & Artist

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Caren Heine, Artist

The monarch butterfly is an amazing and exquisite jewel of nature. I enjoyed trying to capture its beauty in this design, where it is set among its favourite plant, the milkweed, which I planted successfully in my garden! The painting that I submitted was a natural progression, as I have been a watercolour artist for many years and I loved the challenge of depicting the vibrancy of the delicate wings. I am honoured to be a part of this celebration of a rare and endangered treasure.

Caren Heine, Artist

Mélanie Luis, Product Manager

We’re so pleased to bring back Murano glass, last seen on the 2020 Murano Holiday Cookies coin. To ensure both authenticity and quality, we sourced these glass artworks directly from Murano, Italy, where, for centuries now, artisans have produced some of the world’s most coveted glass art. I hope collectors will appreciate the uniqueness of their Murano butterfly – it’s been handcrafted by a master glassmaker, so no two pieces are exactly alike. As for the engraving, while we typically ask artists to submit coin designs in greyscale, we requested a watercolour painting for this one. The accompanying art card is our way of sharing this original work of art with coin collectors, to be admired by a wider audience instead of being tucked away in the archives.

Mélanie Luis, Product Manager

Cecily Mok, 3D Artist-Engraver

With stylized art, engravers have a little more freedom to adapt details to the coin size or sculpting technique. But this design is so beautifully realistic that I needed to take things slow and try to re-create all the details from the original painting, and it proved to be a laborious and painstaking process. Generally speaking, a larger coin size allows for more noticeable relief height variations, and a half-kilo certainly provides the space for the flowers to bloom. Laying out the canvas by breaking the design down into stacked shapes and layers gave me a better understanding of how every leaf, every petal, interacts with one another. I started by sculpting the middle section before moving on to the left side, allowing the model to build and grow from the bottom leaf up to the flowers at the top. And then there’s the butterfly layer, which features small height differentiations to represent colours (higher for black, lower for white), so the frostings aren’t doing all of the heavy lifting. I’m very detail-oriented, and when working with this much detail, I strive to capture it all. And given that no two Murano butterfly are the same, I couldn’t risk an unsightly gap in the engraving if the butterfly’s base turned out to be smaller, or its wings angled differently. In the end, I feel all of that care, patience, and even endurance have resulted in, I think, a magical design that really does the original artwork justice.

Cecily Mok, 3D Artist-Engraver

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