Celebrating the Lunar Year of the Horse, collectors can now purchase the Perth Mint’s 2014 Year of the Horse Stamp and Coin Cover through Provident Metals.

Each aluminum coin comes in a stylized card, which showcases the obverse and reverse of the coin. Two Australian postage stamps marked with the first day of issue are included on each card, along with the Australia Post’s seal of authenticity.

The reverse of each Perth Mint Year of the Horse was designed by Tom Vaughan, and features two horses in front of a Chinese landscape, one leaning down to take a drink of water. It is inscribed with the Chinese character for horse, along with the words YEAR OF THE HORSE and the mintmark P.

The obverse of each 2014 Year of the Horse features Ian Rank-Broadley’s Queen Elizabeth II design, along with the coin’s year of issue and denomination.

The horse is the seventh animal in the Chinese Lunar Zodiac. Part of a 12-year cycle, the Lunar Horse includes the years 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 and 2014. People born in these years are believed to be energetic, confident, hard-working and bright.

A great gift for loved ones born in a Year of the Horse, order 2014 Year of the Horse Perth Mint Stamp and Coin Cover ;from Provident Metals today. Use our secure online ordering system and your coin will arrive in just days.

About the Perth Mint

The Perth Mint was founded in 1899 after gold was discovered in local Australian deposits. The newly-established mint struck gold and silver sovereigns until Great Britain abandoned the gold standard in 1931.

The mint remained under British ownership until July of 1970, when it ceded to the state government of Western Australia. Today, the Perth Mint produces nearly all of the nation’s legal tender bullion coins in its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.