Growing Up: Lions 5 oz edition (2022 Numiscollect)
A new series that debuted at the 2021 World Money Fair in Berlin, ‘Growing Up’ was a neat concept, displaying an animal as a fully grown adult on the reverse face, and in younger form on the obverse. We’ve always preferred coins that employ both faces to their full potential, and this was one of those. That debut coin featured the lion, showing us an impressive male in portrait form on the reverse. There’s a lioness in line form in the background. The obverse carries a natural scene of a cub drinking from a pond. The reflected adult is beautifully done. Even the coin issue details are reflected.
That coin was a 45 mm diameter, two-ounce piece, and what we have here is a five-ounce variant. Outside the obviously greater denomination, the design is identical in every way. It has the Black Proof finish on the reverse face as before, and the clean proof finish on the obverse, creating a nice contrast. To be honest, this was a fine coin on release, which is now sold out at the mint, so a good opportunity to pick it up in a bigger, more impressive format, although at a higher cost, of course. However, just 149 pieces of this 65 mm diameter coin will be struck, and it already seems to be going fast. Hopefully, we’ll see the 2022 Stallion design return in 2023 at five ounces.
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