4692) "Pride - the Third Deadly Sin", Cook Islands: "The Seven Deadly Sins Coin Series": A $5 1.00 oz Silver Proof Coin minted by B.H.Mayer's Kunstprageanstalt GmbH at their facilities in Munich on behalf of Coin Invest Trust (CIT): Date/Year of Coin issue: 30.09.2026:
The "Seven Deadly Sins Coin Series":
The seven deadly sins (also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins) function as a grouping classification of major vices within the teachings of Christianity.
According to the standard list, the seven deadly sins in the Roman Catholic Church are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth.
In Catholicism, the classification of deadly sins into a group of seven originated with Tertullian and continued with Evagrius Ponticus.
The concepts of the sins involved were in part based on Greco-Roman and Biblical antecedents.
Later, the concept of seven deadly sins evolved further, based upon historical context based upon the Latin language of the Roman Catholic Church, though with a significant influence from the Greek language and associated religious traditions.
Knowledge of the seven deadly sin concept is known through discussions in various treatises and also depictions in paintings and sculpture, for example architectural decorations on certain churches of certain Catholic parishes and also from certain older textbooks. Further information has been derived from patterns of confessions.
Subsequently, over the centuries into modern times, the idea of sins (especially seven in number) has influenced or inspired various streams of religious and philosophical thought, fine art painting, and modern popular culture media such as literature, film, and television.
Origin of the currently recognised seven deadly sins:
These "evil thoughts" can be categorized as follows:
Physical (thoughts produced by the nutritive, sexual, and acquisitive appetites)
Emotional (thoughts produced by depressive, irascible, or dismissive moods)
Mental (thoughts produced by jealous/envious, boastful, or hubristic states of mind)
The fourth-century monk Evagrius Ponticus reduced the nine logismoi to eight, as follows:
Γαστριμαργία (gastrimargia) gluttony
Πορνεία (porneia) prostitution, fornication
Φιλαργυρία (philargyria) greed
Λύπη (lypē) sadness, rendered in the Philokalia as envy, sadness at another's good fortune
Ὀργή (orgē) wrath
Ἀκηδία (akēdia) acedia (apathy/neglect/indifference), rendered in the Philokalia as dejection
Κενοδοξία (kenodoxia) boasting
Ὑπερηφανία (hyperēphania) pride, sometimes rendered as self-overestimation, arrogance, or grandiosity
Evagrius's list was translated into the Latin of Western Christianity in many writings of John Cassian, thus becoming part of the Western tradition's spiritual pietas or Catholic devotions as follows:
Gula (gluttony)
Luxuria/Fornicatio (lust, fornication)
Avaritia (greed)
Tristitia (sorrow, despair, despondency)
Ira (wrath)
Acedia (sloth)
Vanagloria (vanity vainglory)
Superbia (pride)
In AD 590, Pope Gregory I revised the list to form a more common list.
Gregory combined tristitia with acedia and vanagloria with superbia, adding envy, which is invidia in Latin.
It is interesting to note that Pope Gregory's list corresponds exactly to the traits described in Pirkei Avot as "removing one from the world."
"Envy" - the fifth issue in the Series by Coin Invest Trust (CIT):
The seven deadly sins have their origins in early Christianity and were formulated for the first time in the 4th century.
The seven deadly sins are: pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth.
They are not considered concrete deeds, but as inner attitudes or vices that can distance man from God and lead to grave sin.
The Third issue of the Series takes on "Pride" –
The third issue of the series is dedicated to arrogance (Pride) – the mortal sin that is often considered the origin of all other vices in the Christian tradition.
Pride means an exaggerated overestimation of one's own abilities, the feeling of being above things and above other people.
One animal embodies this attitude like hardly any other: the lion.
With its majestic appearance, its self-evident dominance and the aura of absolute superiority, it has always been a symbol of pride and royal dignity.
Yet it is precisely this natural sublimity that makes mortal sin so subtle. Pride is not loud or aggressive, but often dignified, safe, controlled – and yet dangerous.
Because if you exaggerate yourself too much, it's easy to lose sight of reality and humility.
This third issue is also released as a classic and dyed coin and is limited to only 999 pieces worldwide. An impressive and at the same time ironic depiction of a mortal sin that is as old as humanity itself. Pride 2.0!
The Coin:
This limited coin, only 999 pieces worldwide, is an impressive representation of this dangerous mortal sin.
The specifications of this Silver Proof Coin are:
Country: Cook Islands
Coin Quality: Proof
Nominal value: 5 Dollars
Weight: 1 oz
Size: 38.61 mm
Year: 2026
Metal Composition/Material: Silver
Fineness: 0.9999
Edition/Mintage: 999 pcs
Shape: Round
Special feature: stained
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