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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Nine Sons of the Dragon King
| Issuer | Tokelau |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Weight | 1155.365 g |
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| Reverse description | Highly detailed, deeply struck composition depicting the Dragon King in the central field, his horned and scaled head facing outward with mouth open, grasping a ceremonial sceptre and flanked by a flaming pearl below. Surrounding the central Dragon King are his nine sons, each rendered as a distinct serpentine dragon coiling dynamically through swirling auspicious clouds that fill the entire field to the rim. A traditional Chinese cash coin motif appears at the apex of the composition, symbolising prosperity and good fortune. The design draws on classical Chinese imperial iconography and is executed in an antiqued high-relief style with no peripheral legend. |
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| Mintage | 2022 - Antiqued - 369 |
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Tokelau has no mint of its own and no meaningful numismatic tradition — it functions as a convenient issuing authority for the New Zealand Mint, which produces collector pieces under its name for international sale. This coin is one of that program's more ambitious formats: a sandwich construction with a copper core flanked by fine silver layers, a technique borrowed from industrial bimetallic engineering rather than anything in coinage history.
The Nine Sons of the Dragon is a Chinese mythological taxonomy catalogued in Ming dynasty texts, each son assigned a distinct character and domain. At over a kilogram, this is a bullion-adjacent format aimed squarely at the Asian collector market.