2021 Great Britain £2 1-oz Silver Lunar Year of the Ox Proof

Just in Time for 2021: Great Britain’s Big Beautiful Silver Ox

Think of the ox. In Great Britain, the city of Oxford — famous for its respected university — comes from the Anglo-Saxon word Oxenaford, which literally means a “ford for oxen.” As a highly productive agricultural community dating back thousands of years, Oxfordshire is well acquainted with the ox, a beast of burden that now assumes the role the eighth release in The Royal Mint’s popular Shēngxiào Collection that pays tribute to the animals of China’s lunar calendar.

This 2021-dated release marks the first time the Year of the Ox has been immortalized on an official coin from the United Kingdom. Normally a draft animal seen pulling a yoke and plowing fields, the ox on this legal-tender £5 coin is instead depicted grazing in a field far from the burdens of its daily chores. With the Year of the Ox set to arrive on February 11, 2021, the dawn of a new year that’s free of the trials and tribulations of 2020 means these coins couldn’t arrive at a better time.

Each coin in this offer was struck in one ounce of highly pure 99.9% silver and comes in gorgeous Proof condition, meaning they were expertly crafted by the mint from hand-selected planchets, polished dies and multiple strikes to produce beautifully frosted details rising over mirror-like fields! Plus, each will also arrive housed in its original government packaging that consists of a beautiful black display case inside a red Lunar Series shipper and accompanied by a Royal Mint-issued Certificate of Authenticity.

Just 3,998 of these magnificent 2021 One-Ounce Silver Great Britain Lunar Year of the Ox Proofs will ever be minted. So, start the new year out right and secure one of these coins for your collection before they’re all gone!

• THE YEAR OF THE OX – This coin celebrates the Year of the Ox which begins on February 11, 2021. The eighth release in The Royal Mint’s popular Shēngxiào Collection, it depicts a bucolic image of an ox grazing in a field. The obverse features the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
• STRUCK IN HIGHLY PURE SILVER – These Silver Great Britain Lunar Year of the Ox Proofs were struck in one ounce of highly pure 99.9% silver and measure 38.61 mm in diameter.
• LEGAL TENDER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM – These 2021 One-Ounce Silver Great Britain Lunar Year of the Ox Proofs are £2 (two pounds) legal tender in Great Britain and measure 38.61 mm in diameter.
• GORGEOUS PROOF CONDITION – Your 2021 One-Ounce Silver Great Britain Lunar Year of the Ox Proof was crafted from hand-selected planchets, polished dies and multiple strikes to produce frosted details rising over mirror-like fields.
• LOW LIMITED EDITION – The maximum limited edition for the 2021 One-Ounce Silver Great Britain Lunar Year of the Ox Proof has been set at just 3,998.

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