Coin "Christmas"

Name | Christmas |
Presented by | Resource Trade, Russia |
Nominal value | 5 dollars (Cook Islands) |
Metal | Silver 925° |
Mintage | 500 |
Production quality | Artificially old (oxidated), partially colored |
Description of obverse and reverse | Obverse: in the center - a portrait of the Queen of England Elizabeth II, along the edge - the inscriptions: on the left – “ELIZABETH II”, on the right - «COOK ISLANDS», at the bottom - the face value “5 DOLLARS”. Reverse: in the center - the image of the ritual of caroling in a Ukrainian village, around this picture on a circle - the inscriptions: at the top – “З НОВИМ РОКОМ ТА РIЗДВОМ ХРИСТОВИМ!”, at the bottom – “ЩЕДРИЙ ВЕЧIР, ДОБРИЙ ВЕЧIР, ДОБРИМ ЛЮДЯМ НА ЗДОРОВ’Я!”, at the bottom – the alloy and the weight of the coin “Ag925 31,1 g” and the year of issue “2011”. |
A brief annotation | Christmas and New Year are the holidays celebrated by many nations. The original pre-Christian way of celebration of the New Year is well kept in the traditions and rituals of the Ukrainians on January, 13-14. Unlike Christmas and Epiphany, these days were not so great important in the religious calendar, so there are almost no ecclesiastical motifs in their rituals. |
Designer | Artist Leonov N.S. |
Producer | B.H. Mayer’s Kunstpraegeanstalt (Germany) |
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