Hi everyone,
This is the
5th years of the lunar panda series.
2019 is year of PIG. This is
not a favorable lunar years for Chinese and Foreigner.
Thus, I have talked to Shenyang Mint to reduce down the mintage since it is not a favorable lunar year for both Asian and Westerner. They have agreed and get approval of
reduce the planned mintage from 499 to 299 for silver version. The
silver antique version will remain 99 mintage.
The
design are all consistent from monkey to pig. It is classic lunar design by choosing the
rare and/or real animal(lunar) in China. let's recall the memory of the series of the LUNAR selected :-
MONKEY -
Golden snub-nosed monkey or Sichuan golden hair monkey (四川金丝猴).
ROOSTER -
Cochin breed of China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochin_chicken
DOG -
Peiking dog of China Beijing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekingese
PIG - Peiking/Beijing Black of China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Black
The Beijing Black Pig breed is a
meat breed which can be found all through China. This breed is
growing quickly and fairly large for intensively farmed. It has a
distinctive, flexible muzzle, as their nostrils open onto a hard, protective disk. The inside of the Beijing Black Pig snout is rigidly attached to the head, allowing it to root vigorously for forage.
Chinese eat a lot pig meat like German. Thus, there are many varieties of pig in China. However, T
he Peiking/Beijing black pig is the famous breed.Thus, we decide to choose this as the design for Lunar Pig panda.
Here the photo of living Peiking/Beijing black pig.
The design of the lunar pig and panda has done. The Panda need a small modification. As usual,
I do not like shortcut and cut corner which the design has changing year by year for the lunar and panda instead of copy and used back the same background on yearly basis to cut cost here and there by selling cheap. The theme remain the same and consistent :- Happy Lunar family - daddy, mommy and kids, Greatwall and Panda.
I will post the design and the design concept as usual later. The design concept is always well though on every year which been proven in last few years instead of just design without thoughtful concept or concept just related to money alone.