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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bkprewitt, post: 1396311, member: 33172&quot;]So, recently found the wife and I will be having our second little one this year.&nbsp; Also recently learned that a number of world mints produce various legal tender coins commemorating the particular year of the Lunar/Chinese Zodiac (e.g., 2012 is the Year of the Dragon).</p><p><br /></p><p>When released here in the U.S., I plan to purchase for the new child proof and uncirculated sets of this year&#039;s coins, along with perhaps the 2012 Star-Spangled Banner Commemorative Silver Dollar and a 2012 American Silver Eagle (I&#039;ve gotten the 2009 proof and mint sets for child #1, and still need to get a Lincoln Bicentennial Silver Dollar 2009 ASE for her as well -- got back into numismatics in mid-2011 and I&#039;m still playing catch up on the 2009 coins for her).&nbsp; Given that my kids/will be are half Vietnamese (the half they get from their mother, not me), and that the Lunar New Year and Lunar Zodiac are a part of their ancestral culture, I thought that adding a Lunar coin from a world mint would be good addition to the custom birth year sets I&#039;m preparing for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I&#039;m looking for your advice on the best Lunar Coin I can get, with the following requirements:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) That it be legal tender in its nation of origin.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) That it have a relatively low maximum mintage.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) That it not only have a 2012 version for child #2, but also a 2009 Year of the Ox version for child #1&#039;s birth year set.</p><p><br /></p><p>While it would have been neat to get such a coin from Vietnam such that the coins would have Viet words on them, I can&#039;t find anything like this minted in Vietnam, plus there&#039;s the issue of not wanting to give any seniorage profit (even if small) to a communist regime my wife&#039;s family risked life and limb to escape from 34 years ago.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>After spending some hours researching this myself, I&#039;ve come upon the Australian Gilded 1-oz. Silver coins, which have a maximum mintage of 50,000 each.&nbsp; Links to the coins are here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalogue/australian-lunar-silver-coin-series-ii-2012-year-of-the-dragon-gilded-edition.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalogue/australian-lunar-silver-coin-series-ii-2012-year-of-the-dragon-gilded-edition.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalogue/australian-lunar-silver-coin-series-ii-2012-year-of-the-dragon-gilded-edition.aspx</a></p><p><a href="http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalogue/australian-lunar-series-ii-2009-gilded-ox-1oz-silver-coin.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalogue/australian-lunar-series-ii-2009-gilded-ox-1oz-silver-coin.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalogue/australian-lunar-series-ii-2009-gilded-ox-1oz-silver-coin.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The positives about these coins are the limited mintages what I think are strikingly beautiful designs on the reverses.&nbsp; The downsides I see of this one that they&#039;re relatively pricey (around US$100/each for 1 oz. of silver), and they&#039;ve got the image of the Queen on the obverse (not that I have anything personally against her, I just don&#039;t generally like the idea of a living monarch being on a coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>Any other suggestions y&#039;all might have?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Brian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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