Part of yesterday’s Spring Launch at CIT, their annual Lunar Calendar range continued with the debut of a trio of new issues, as varied in format as last year. Headlining the ‘Sweet Rabbit’ range is a super little fully dimensional silver coin, of an ounce in weight. These have always had a quite unique style of their own, and the rabbit is certainly no exception. Issued for Mongolia, it’s without question one of the more distinctive coins in a well populated genre.

A more traditional addition is one of CIT’s many half-gram minigold coins. The producer has a habit of adding one to many of their major releases, and they seem to be extremely popular. It depicts the dimensional coin design on its reverse, and the issuer details, the Bank of Mongolia, on the obverse. Last of the trio is one of the increasingly rare silver coin notes. These are formed in five grams of silver, and reach out to 150 x 70 mm in size. Adorned with a very banknote-like line-art design, it also takes the basic design of the dimensional silver coin for inspiration.

The silver coin has a 999 mintage, with the minigold and the silver foil capped at 5,000 pieces each. We actually have a full profile of this series up on site, hence this quicklook for the new release, and it’s well worth a perusal if you’re one of the many lunar coin collectors out there.