3274) "The Tower", Tarot Cards, Niue Island: The Sixteenth $2 (Two Dollars) Coin Card in the Major Arcana released by the New Zealand Mint on behalf of Niue Island: Year of Coin issue: 2024:
For some of us, the thought of Tarot cards inspires visions of a mysterious fortune teller dealing out cards while a foreboding and ominous silence cloaks the colourfully dressed woman in darkness as she discerns the querent's future from what the cards have to say.
For several others, Tarot cards are used for conventional games where the cards are used without any danger of occult implications.
Tarot decks first appeared in Italy in the 1430s, and unlike regular card decks that number 52 cards consisting of four suits; Spades, Clubs, Diamonds, and Hearts; Tarot card decks have a five suit, - Swords (representing the Air Element), "Wands" (representing the Fire element), "Cups" (representing the Water Element), "Pentacles" (Representing the Coins or the material/ground element). There is also the "Major Arcana" (Major Secrets), of 21 specially illustrated cards called “Triumphs” and an odd card called “The Fool.” (The Major Arcana represents the Fool's journey in Life).
"The Tower" is the Sixteenth card in the Major Arcana (and the Seventeenth Card in a Tarot Deck).
"The Tower" Tarot Card Description:
The New Zealand Mint has dedicated the seventeenth issue of the Tarot Card Series to the card with the number sixteen in the Major Arcana - The Tower.
The limited rectangular Tarot Cards silver proof coin in colour is delivered in the original box of the New Zealand Mint and includes a numbered Certificate of Authenticity (COA).
It is superbly crafted into a rectangular coin, shaped to reflect a Tarot card.
The Coin:
Symbolism: The Tower is widely associated to danger,
crisis, sudden change, destruction, higher learning, and liberation.
The Tower (XVI) (most common modern name) is the 16th
trump or Major Arcana card in most Italian-suited tarot decks. It has been used
in Tarot cards since the 15th century as well as in divination since the
mid-19th century.
The Tower is widely associated to danger, crisis, sudden
change, destruction, higher learning, and liberation. In the Rider–Waite deck,
the top of The Tower is a crown, which symbolizes materialistic thought being
bought cheap, downcast.
The Tower is associated with the planet Mars.
According to A. E. Waite's 1910 book The Pictorial Key to
the Tarot, the Tower card is associated with:
Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of unforeseen catastrophe. Reversed: Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, distraction, apathy, nullity, vanity.
The inscriptions are - 'TWO DOLLARS. 2024".
The Coin is legal tender in Niue.
The specifications of this Coin are:
Country of issue: Niue Island; Year: 2024; Denomination/Face Value: $2 (Two Dollars - NZD); Metal Composition: .999 Fineness Silver (Ag); Weight: 1.0 Oz or 31.107 grams; Diameter/Size: 53.0 mm x 36.0 mm; Coin Quality: Gem Proof condition with frosted details rising over mirror-like fields, with applied colour; Mintage: 2,000 pieces; Special Technique: Ultra High Relief; Presentation Box/Case: Yes; Certificate of Authenticity (COA): Yes. A holographic sticker on the packaging confirms the serial number for each coin. This is a unique addition to any Tarot or coin collection.
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