Royal Mint 2014 Year of Horse Coin Collection

Starting from 2014 each year the Royal Mint plans to release a series of lunar coins for each the 12 zodiac animals. 2014 starts with the year of the horse. Artist Wuon-Gean Ho has been commissioned to design all 12 coins.

There are 5 coins in the year of the Horse series.

	Mintage
One Ounce Silver Proof PNC	2014
One Ounce Silver Proof Coin	8,888
Five Ounce Silver Proof Coin	1,488
Tenth-Ounce Gold BA Coin	2,888
One Ounce Gold Proof Coin	888

In addition to the higher quality proof coins, a quantity of bullion coins are also to be struck in silver and gold and sold via the Royal Mint's new bullion service: https://www.royalmintbullion.com/Bullion Coins
Bullion coins come with the words "1 OZ FINE GOLD 999.9" or "1 OZ FINE SILVER 999" under the heading on the reverse of the coin.

2014 Year of Horse Bullion Mintage Figures

Gold Coins:      30,000
Silver Coins :  300,000

Silver Mules

An estimated 38,000 of the silver coins (around 13%) were struck accidentally with the Britannia bullion's obverse. These mules sell for between £80 - £120.

Standard Obverse

Britannia Obverse

Image Attributes

24carat.co.uk - 2014 Lunar Mule Coin
bullionbypost.co.uk - Standard Lunar Obverse, Standard Britannia Obverse
royalmint.com - Gold Proof Coin (Top Image)
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk - All else unless stated