RAM Combo: 2024 20c Gold-Plated Coloured Uncirculated Coin – Deluxe Special Edition Book and Lunar Year of the Dragon 2024 $5 Domed Fine Silver Proof Coin

The Coin Company is proud to present RAM COMBO: 2024 20c Coloured Uncirculated Coin – Special Edition Book and Lunar Year of the Dragon 2024 $5 Domed Fine Silver Proof Coin

2024 20c Gold Plated Coloured Uncirculated Coin – Deluxe Special Edition Book – Where is the Green Sheep?

The Royal Australian Mint and the Children’s Book Council of Australia have been shining a light on the joy of reading with its Book Week Series since 2021. The fourth release in this series, Where is the Green Sheep? Written by Mem Fox, and illustrated by Judy Horacek, this coloured coin celebrates its 20th anniversaryin 2024.

The Book Week Series has previously celebrated Australian children’s books Animalia, Diary of a Wombat and Edward the Emu. The Royal Australian Mint has partnered with the Children’s Book Council of Australia on this program, recognising both the importance of reading in children’s development and the joy shared by readers young and old.

The program is designed to appeal to a broad age range with each book an Australianclassic. Parents and grandparents now reading the books to their children and grandchildren may have a sense of nostalgia, rememberingthe story from their childhood.

The colour printed coin will be available as a ‘coin in card’ and in the front cover of a special edition book. The gold plated colour coin will be packaged in a deluxe edition of the book.

Key Feature

• Gold-plated, coloured coin
• Compelling design inspired by Where is the Green Sheep? book
• Limited mintage of 3,000
• Coin’s obverse features effigy of His Majesty King Charles III, designed by Daniel Thorne
• Australian legal tender
• Fourth release in the series

Lunar Year of the Dragon 2024 $5 Domed Fine Silver Proof Coin

Lunar New Year is celebrated throughout the world, with coins considered traditional gifts. Featuring the noble and confident Dragon on the reverse and the Lunar calendar wheel on the obverse, this coin is an auspicious gift or collectible. The Dragon is the fifth of the twelve signs in the Chinese Zodiac. According to legend twelve animals participated in a race across a river to allow the Jade Emperor to establish the order of the signs of the Chinese horoscope. Everyone thought that the Dragon would come first as it could fly, but it stopped to help some villages along the way. It also felt sorry for the Rabbit and decided to help it ashore first, allowing the Rabbit to take fourth place.

The reverse of this 2024 $5 Fine Silver Proof Domed Coin features the mythical Dragon surrounded by auspicious clouds. The obverse bears the Lunar calendar wheel, rotated so that the Dragon is show at the top, along with the 2024 Memorial Obverse features the effigy of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II sculpted by Jody Clark, and her reign dates.

Lunar Year of the Dragon 2024 $5 Doomed Fine Silver Proof Coin has a limited mintage of 7,500.