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Scottsdale Mint strikes the 2023 1 oz Samoa Mermaid Mother & Daughter Silver Coin in .999 fine silver under a sovereign coin agreement with Samoa, carrying a face value of 2 Tala as legal tender. Mintage for this BU/Proof-Like edition is 15,000 coins.The reverse depicts a mother mermaid and her daughter, a design that departs from the traditional solitary siren archetype and instead centers the bond between parent and child. It arrives encapsulated and is IRA-eligible.
Obverse
The obverse features Samoa's coat of arms, face value (2 TALA), SAMOA, weight (1 OZ), purity (.999 FINE SILVER), and year (2023).
Reverse
The reverse depicts a mother mermaid and her young daughter in graceful underwater poses, flowing hair, detailed scaled tails, and figures oriented toward each other in a tender composition.The proof-like mirror-field finish highlights the sculptural depth of the design.
Mermaid figures appear independently in the mythologies of virtually every seafaring civilization on Earth. The earliest recorded human-fish figure is Ea (Enki), the Babylonian god of wisdom and water, depicted with a human upper body and fish lower body in Mesopotamian art dating to approximately 5000 BC. The recognizable female mermaid tradition descends from Atargatis, an ancient Assyrian goddess worshipped from around 1000 BC, who, legend says, transformed into a fish-woman after leaping into a lake in grief, her human beauty too powerful to fully submerge. Across the Pacific, Japan has documented Ningyo, fish-people with supernatural powers, in historical texts for more than 2,500 years, with the belief that eating ningyo flesh granted immortality. In West Africa, Mami Wata ("Mother Water") is a powerful water-spirit deity whose worship spread through the African diaspora into the Caribbean and Brazil. In Slavic Eastern Europe, the Rusalki are spirits of drowned women who haunt rivers. In Scotland and Ireland, Selkies are seal-people who shed their skins to walk on land. The naturalistic explanation most cited by scientists: dugongs and manatees nurse their young above the waterline in a posture resembling a human woman holding a child. Christopher Columbus recorded seeing "three mermaids" off Haiti in 1493, now understood to have been manatees. Scottsdale Mint's Mother & Daughter design reframes this mythology entirely. Where traditional mermaid imagery isolates the figure as a mysterious, solitary creature, this coin grounds it in something universal: the relationship between a parent and child.
Scottsdale Mint strikes the 2023 1 oz Samoa Mermaid Mother & Daughter Silver Coin in .999 fine silver under a sovereign coin agreement with Samoa, carrying a face value of 2 Tala as legal tender. Mintage for this BU/Proof-Like edition is 15,000 coins.The reverse depicts a mother mermaid and her daughter, a design that departs from the traditional solitary siren archetype and instead centers the bond between parent and child. It arrives encapsulated and is IRA-eligible.
Obverse
The obverse features Samoa's coat of arms, face value (2 TALA), SAMOA, weight (1 OZ), purity (.999 FINE SILVER), and year (2023).
Reverse
The reverse depicts a mother mermaid and her young daughter in graceful underwater poses, flowing hair, detailed scaled tails, and figures oriented toward each other in a tender composition.The proof-like mirror-field finish highlights the sculptural depth of the design.
Mermaid figures appear independently in the mythologies of virtually every seafaring civilization on Earth. The earliest recorded human-fish figure is Ea (Enki), the Babylonian god of wisdom and water, depicted with a human upper body and fish lower body in Mesopotamian art dating to approximately 5000 BC. The recognizable female mermaid tradition descends from Atargatis, an ancient Assyrian goddess worshipped from around 1000 BC, who, legend says, transformed into a fish-woman after leaping into a lake in grief, her human beauty too powerful to fully submerge. Across the Pacific, Japan has documented Ningyo, fish-people with supernatural powers, in historical texts for more than 2,500 years, with the belief that eating ningyo flesh granted immortality. In West Africa, Mami Wata ("Mother Water") is a powerful water-spirit deity whose worship spread through the African diaspora into the Caribbean and Brazil. In Slavic Eastern Europe, the Rusalki are spirits of drowned women who haunt rivers. In Scotland and Ireland, Selkies are seal-people who shed their skins to walk on land. The naturalistic explanation most cited by scientists: dugongs and manatees nurse their young above the waterline in a posture resembling a human woman holding a child. Christopher Columbus recorded seeing "three mermaids" off Haiti in 1493, now understood to have been manatees. Scottsdale Mint's Mother & Daughter design reframes this mythology entirely. Where traditional mermaid imagery isolates the figure as a mysterious, solitary creature, this coin grounds it in something universal: the relationship between a parent and child.
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