Silver 50 Cent Lunar Coins

[brismike]

Guys ... just a question I have been asked by a member on Numista regarding the 14 sided Lunar 50 cent coins.

As we all know they first came out like this

2012 Year of the Dragon
2013 Year of the Snake
2014 Year of the Horse
2015 Year of the Goat
2016 Year of the Monkey
2017 Year of the Rooster
2018 Year of the Dog
2019 Year of the Pig
and
2020 will be Year of the Rat. (Just released)
All the above were released in Copper-nickel in a coincard.

2017 Year of the Rooster & 2018 Year of the Dog was also released in Gold Plated copper-nickel for the WMF show.

2014 Year of the Horse and 2015 Year of the Goat were also released in Fine Silver proof.  << This is a definite as I have seen both of these.

The question is have any other years been released in Fine Silver? (Not the $1 coins only these 50 cent ones) 

According to Macca's book edition 23 page 158 the 2016 & 2017 coins were released in silver but I have never found any on fleabay.

Any info greatly appreciated.

Cheers Mike

[notcb]

MIke,

I keep a complete list and collection of the various 50 cent coins released.   (RAM and Perth)

Maccas is NOT always correct!

I have done a search of all the Currency Determinations from 2013 to 2017.   The key to look for is the S3 code which stands for the 14 sided coins.


CD16 no 1 at Item 24  S3 R12 shows the  Cu/Ni 2016 Monkey  =   NO SILVER COIN

CD14 no 4  at Items 55 and 56 shows the Cu/Ni  and Silver 2015  Goat coins

CD13 no 5  at Items 11 and 15 shows the Cu/Ni and Silver 2014  Horse coins.

Interestingly, Renniks does not mention any 2016 Monkey or 2017 Rooster Silver coins, but does have the 2017 and 2018  WMF Gold plated coins listed.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Peter  (notcb)

[brismike]

Thanks Peter - I really appreciate your reply. It confirms what I thought that only the Horse & Goat 50 cent 14 sided coins were issued in Silver. I will pass the info onto the Numista Member.

Another interesting thing is that the 2018 Lunar Dog 50c Issue was 14 sided but the Gold Plated WMF 50c Issue was 12 sided and they had different reverse designs. The WMF issue had the same reverse design as the Lunar $1 coin instead of what was on the standard Lunar 50 cent coin.

Both of the 2017 50c lunar issues, normal and WMF Plated ones were 14 sided and they had exactly the same Rooster design.

You could almost think that somehow a mistake was made on the WMF 50c 2018 (Wrong sides and wrong design) coin but it was too late to fix it so they just issued the it anyway as it was.

Cheers Mike

[runway]

Definately no 14 sided 50c in 2012

[Goldseeker]

Definately no 14 sided 50c in 2012.

Are you only talking about the silver issues or all issues.

I do have a 14 sided 50c, Year Of The Dragon for 2012 in my collection.   (It is cpro-nickedl).