2011 1oz Silver Year of the Rabbit - Alice in Wonderland - The New Zealand Mint (.999 Pure Silver)

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This 2011 1 oz Year of the Rabbit Silver Alice in Wonderland Coin is based on its namesake. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll . It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic in ways that have given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre, and its narrative course and structure have been enormously influential, especially in the fantasy genre.

The White Rabbit

The White Rabbit is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He appears at the very beginning of the book, in chapter one, wearing a waistcoat, and muttering “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” Alice follows him down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. Alice encounters him again when he mistakes her for his housemaid Mary Ann and she becomes trapped in his house after growing too large. The Rabbit shows up again in the last few chapters, as a herald-like servant of the King and Queen of Hearts.

Lunar years of the Rabbit

1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011

Reverse

full color image of the white rabbit created from the original illustrations in the Alice in Wonderland book. Surrounding the white rabbit is an engraved clock which goes backwards, just as time goes backward in Wonderland.

Obverse

The obverse has Raphael Maklouf effigy of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II sovereign of the commonwealth of the Pitcairn Islands.

Limited Mintage

The lunar year of the Rabbit coin is struck from 1oz of pure silver. No more than 15,000 coins will be issued by the New Zealand Mint. The coins are legal tender of the Government of Pitcairn Island.

Packaging

Each coin is presented in unique packaging with a replica clock that goes backwards. This is in turn enclosed within an outer box decorated with an image of the rabbit.