I hope everyone is enjoying the Easter holiday weekend. Please post a coin with the Easter holiday theme. You might post a Maundy Thursday theme, a Good Friday theme, an Easter Sunday theme or anything you want. It would be great to see another Easter Bunny on a coin. Have a great weekend everyone.
Just a quick note on Easter... stopped by the bank today to pick up my usual stash of dollar coins... the teller said "all gone, everyone is getting them to put in those plastic Easter eggs".
You realize that 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit on the Chinese Zodiac/Calendar. As such, it may be fitting to include some photos of the 2011Year of the Rabbit coins: NOTE: The following links may lead you to a website offering the coins for sale. I put in the link so you may see the coin/s. This is not an endorsement of the coin, its offerer, the price, nor is it a disapproval of same. If not interested as an Easter memento, a collection of coins featuring bunnies, hares or rabbits, it might appeal to you as a birthright keepsake as those people born in 1927, '39, '51, '63, '75, '87, '99 and, of course, this year (2011) were/will be born in theYear of the Rabbit. The Perth Mint, (P mint mark) struck the 2011 Year of the Rabbit coins in silver producing four different denominations: 1/2 oz. 1 oz. 2 oz. 10 oz. AUSTRALIA 2011-P SILVER 1 OUNCE YEAR OF THE RABBIT - PERTH MINT and in the following gold denominations: The next photo is, also, a photo of an Australian Year of the Rabbit coin, but from 1999 and were minted in gold: 1/20 oz. 1/10 oz. 1/4 oz. Photo courtesy of Lynn Coins. AUSTRALIA 1999 GOLD 1/20 OUNCE - CHINESE LUNAR COIN, YEAR OF THE RABBIT The following denominations were, also, struck in 1999, but are of silver ()same design): 1/2 oz. 1 oz. 2 oz. 10 oz. AUSTRALIA 1999 SILVER - CHINESE LUNAR COIN YEAR OF THE RABBIT From 1993 through 1998 Gilbraltar struck gold coins in the following denominations featuring the Easter Bunny in his alter ego, Peter Rabbit. Each year is different, but all coins produced during that year bear the same artist's rendition of PETER. (Courtesy of Lynn Coins): GILBRALTAR 1993 GOLD CROWN - PETER RABBIT GIBRALTAR 1994 GOLD CROWN - PETER RABBIT GIBRALTAR 1995 GOLD CROWN - PETER RABBIT GIBRALTAR 1996 GOLD CROWN - PETER RABBIT GIBRALTAR 1997 GOILD CROWN - PETER RABBIT GIBRALTAR 1998 GOLD CROWN - PETER RABBIT In 2011 Fiji entered into a contract with the Mint of Finland authorizing a Year of the Rabbit silver proof coin featuring a Carrot Garden Rabbit (courtesy of Royal Scandinavian Mint): FIJI 2011 SILVER $1 COIN - CARROT GARDEN RABBIT The above coin is just one of 4 different Lunar Year coins minted by the Finland Mint for 2011. When the set is completed, it will feature the Yin and Yang shaped coins "Winter Rabbit" and "Summer Rabbit" along with the "Carrot Rabbit" (which you already saw) and the "Cabbage Rabbit" (made of a silver filigree). FIJI 2011 YEAR OF THE RABBIT COINS - YIN AND YANG SET Just something to think about... Clinker
