What a Gift it would be... Chapter 3
Hello Everyone, i hope you are well. Today marks the third consecutive day of me posting another silver coin. This is actually a challenge/initiative that came out from @silverd510 and the gist is to create 12 consecutive posts about silver coins that you would like to receive as a present for Christmas.
Today’s coin as I mentioned yesterday as well, is from Scottsdale Mint as well and revolves around Japanese culture. Ofc it’s another colored silver coin, that as you can see it depicts a Samurai with the traditional Japanese style. It came out in 2018, proof-like, with .999 silver purity and weights 1 Troy Oz. There are 1500 of these out there for anyone interested and it costs around 79$-90$.
As you can see in the front, the name of Kiyomori is written. It’s time for a history lesson, yeahh! Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181) was a actually a military leader and quite the higher up in terms of rankings ofthat ear. He led the Taira clan who was considered one of the top 4 in Heian-kyo, which you may knownow as Kyoto. According to Wikipedia the guy pretty much established the first samurai administrative government in the history of Japan.
If you can pay closer attention i started with a coin that costs around 200$ and now showed you one with 80$. I highly bet that by the end of this initiative, there will be coins posted that are the cheapest ones i can find, in the hope that i might actually buy one. Ofc i will try to find the cheapest silver one, but cool at the same times, at least in my eyes!
Tomorrow i will show you another silver colored coin about Japanese culture which i like the most between this one and the one yesterday so be ready!
I’ve seen that one in person it’s pretty cool. Thanks for participating
oh really? amazing!
Cool! You managed to get the colorized version. I have this silver coin but only in the Brilliant Uncirculated version. I've posted a few Japanese themed coinage in the past and enjoy seeing this theme.
Thanks for sharing @filotasriza3 🎄
don't have that coin, wish to obtain it though :P Today's one will be even better looking, i believe you will like it!
Awesome that you have a version of this coin!
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Kiyomori was a nasty guy. He ruled with an iron fist. It is said that when he died, his fever burned with the heat of hell, so hot that it boiled the water of his bath and no one could get near him as he lay on his deathbed. This is a great woodblock made from this story.
Love the coin! I'd love to pick this one up too.
yeah i read it as well, pretty intense story, to be honest i first learned about him while discovering the coin!