With the diaspora of Chinese people, the custom of giving Lunar Festival gifts marked with the year’s Zodiac animal has spread around the world, especially since the year 2000.

In that auspicious year of the metal dragon, an unexpected multitude of metal dragon gifts first burst on the scene and made their way to popular online sales sites. It was the fashion to design the dragons so that their coils formed a cursive representation of the number 2000. Coins seemed like an obvious choice to make, and they sold very well. Such coins with images of dragons on them have an extensive history of production in Asia, due to their historical association with the old Dragon Money of China, Japan, and Korea.

We have now arrived at 2024. More and more Asian people are relocating, bringing their beloved cultural traditions to the West — and this year dozen of nations are issuing lucky silver, gold, and copper coins and bullion displaying images of talismanic dragons in celebration of an event that only happens every 12 years, with high-tech beautifications such as colourization, metalization, gilding, and three-dimensional sculptural relief.

For an exhaustive gallery of these lucky dragon coins, join us at https://yourwateandfate.com/Dragon_Money

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