Mermaids Swimming into Your Collection

CIT released its autumn launch, which included many quality coins we’ve come to expect from them, with themes ranging from cats to the fantasy world of mermaids.

These merfolk have swum into our hearts and will hopefully be swimming into our collections soon. Both the obverse and reverse of the Underwater Fantasy-Mermaids coin are worthy of a closer look.

On the obverse, the coin is covered in scales with two mermaids enjoying the water. The design is inspired by Palau’s coat of arms, making this Republic of Palau coin quite novel and unique.

The 20-dollar silver coin’s reverse will make your imagination run wild. A blue enameled gate to an underwater world takes up the center of the coin. A diver swims down towards a ruin where a mermaid waits. Surrounding outside of the gate is marine life, from plants to seahorses, starfish, and another mermaid.

While adding enamel to coins is nothing new in the world of modern commemoratives and NCLT, this coin has the enamel applied over relief, making looking through the gate an experience just like looking through a window into the fantasy realms of our childhood imaginations.

Mintage is low for this coin, only 777 pieces. Despite this rarity, this coin will be well worth the hunt to add to your collection. CIT coins are perfect for enticing younger generations into the world of coins. It’s impossible to deny the artistry that goes into modern collectible coins with impressive technologies such as smartminting®, adding fine details that make it so we can’t help but keep looking.