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Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats

Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats
Type: Silver coin
Material: Silver 925°
Issuance Date: 2015
Month: November
Nominal Value: 5 EUR
Maximum Mintage: 10 000
Quality: Proof
Weight (g): 31.47
Diameter (mm): 38.61
Graphic design: Anita Paegle
Plaster model: Jānis Strupulis
Minted: Lietuvos monetų kalykla (Lithuania)



Sale

Seller Price
baltcoin.lv 210.00  [147.59 Ls] new Go to site
Vladimir 125.00  [87.85 Ls] Collector's cabinet
Proof 100.00  [70.28 Ls] new Collector's cabinet
Proof 129.00  [90.66 Ls] new Collector's cabinet
Andis 130.00  [91.36 Ls] new Collector's cabinet
Ieva 190.00  [133.53 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Andris 135.00  [94.88 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Rns 125.00  [87.85 Ls] Go to site
Lilita 135.00  [94.88 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Иван 115.00  [80.82 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
tatjana 130.00  [91.36 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Vilnis 110.00  [77.31 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Alexey 95.00  [66.77 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Guntars 85.00  [59.74 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Latviancoins 160.00  [112.45 Ls] Go to site
Juris 155.00  [108.93 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
ANTIKWAR999 145.00  [101.91 Ls] Collector's cabinet
Pauls 100.00  [70.28 Ls] old Collector's cabinet


Buying

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baltcoin.lv 55.00 €  [38.65 Ls] new Collector's cabinet
Vladimir 95.00 €  [66.77 Ls] new Collector's cabinet
Юрий 95.00 €  [66.77 Ls] Collector's cabinet
Ivars 90.00 €  [63.25 Ls] Collector's cabinet
Bruno 100.00 €  [70.28 Ls] Collector's cabinet
Rns 50.00 €  [35.14 Ls] Collector's cabinet
Andrejs 90.00 €  [63.25 Ls] Collector's cabinet
coins777 100.00 €  [70.28 Ls] Collector's cabinet
Andris 90.00 €  [63.25 Ls] Collector's cabinet
Mihhail 120.00 €  [84.34 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Eurogold 65.00 €  [45.68 Ls] Collector's cabinet
Olegs 82.00 €  [57.63 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Serge 90.00 €  [63.25 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Proof 65.00 €  [45.68 Ls] Collector's cabinet
Moneta 75.00 €  [52.71 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Buratīno 100.00 €  [70.28 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
ronnie 70.00 €  [49.20 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
aleksej 85.00 €  [59.74 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Gregory 90.00 €  [63.25 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Arah 115.00 €  [80.82 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Сергей 100.00 €  [70.28 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Olga 120.00 €  [84.34 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Vadim 80.00 €  [56.22 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Aigars 82.00 €  [57.63 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Svitlana 95.00 €  [66.77 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
ANTIKWAR999 80.00 €  [56.22 Ls] Collector's cabinet
Pēteris 70.00 €  [49.20 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
ppgroup 90.00 €  [63.25 Ls] Collector's cabinet
Denis 60.00 €  [42.17 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Jevgeny 80.00 €  [56.22 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Sofija 50.00 €  [35.14 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Vlad 20.00 €  [14.06 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Renars 70.00 €  [49.20 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Valerijs 50.00 €  [35.14 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
Valerijs 50.00 €  [35.14 Ls] old Collector's cabinet
MrT 35.00 €  [24.60 Ls] old Collector's cabinet

Obverse
 
The obverse of the coin features a bed with five sleeping cats. The bed-foot is decorated with an image and the inscription 2015. The names of five cats – Muris, Ņuris, Incis, Mincis and Puncis – are arranged in a semi-circle on the right.
 
Reverse
 
A cat holding a porridge bowl is placed in the centre. Cats with smaller bowls and spoons are featured on either side of the central motif. The words KAĶI (CATS) and EURO, with the inscription of the coin's value and cats' number "5" in between them, are placed at the top.
 
Edge
 
The inscriptions LATVIJAS BANKA and LATVIJAS REPUBLIKA (Republic of Latvia), separated by rhombic dots.
 
Latvians have always loved fairy tales with their message encouraging kindness and the virtue of diligence. Evil is also present, yet the good always wins. This traditional heritage contains the code of folk wisdom, philosophy and ethics; some scenario is always played out and a piece of useful advice given as part of emotional and moral education.
 
The Latvian fairy tale about the five cats is one of those which parents tend to read to their children as a bedtime story and which they are always asked to read again. The cats are engaged in a very practical activity: "Five cats went to the forest to cut firewood. They cut and cut, but ended up with nothing. Tails raised they came back home. They came back home and looked around, but there really was no firewood at all.
 
They went to the forest again and came back with a log each: one log was short, another small, the third was neither. Finally, all five of them started the fire, made some porridge and devoured it greedily. They ate so much that they could hardly walk and decided to just go to sleep. Let's go and look whether they may be still asleep.".
 
The Latvian children's book writer Vilma Delle (1892–1980) turned this fairy tale into sweet and slightly comical verse. Her poem "Five Cats", with its romantic and sympathetic atmosphere reminiscent of Kārlis Skalbe's "Pussy's Watermill" tale, was first published in the youth magazine "Jaunības Tekas" in 1920, and the narrative begins as follows:
 
"Five cats once had a thought:
A pot of porridge would be good.
We've got milk, a pot's been brought –
Just have to cut some firewood."
 
After all their trouble getting the firewood, they got their reward, for, according to folk wisdom, one's well-being is based on using one's smarts, resourcefulness and diligence:
 
"Presently they cooked their meal,
There was food enough for all:
They ate and ate with so much zeal
That their bellies looked like balls."
 
The version of "Five Cats" by poet and artist Alberts Kronenbergs (1887–1958) was published in the children's magazine "Bērnība" in 1949, and there the cats are shown as quarrelsome creatures that cannot come to any agreement about working together and getting the firewood.
 
The series of Latvijas Banka's fairy tale coins is launched by the 5 euro collector coin "Five Cats". The design by artist Anita Paegle is suggestive of familial cosiness, warmth and well-being which can be achieved by good work.
За период с 2015-11-24 по 2024-01-23 монета подорожала на 221%

Recent changes

[2023.05.09]   Rns: On sale coin Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats with price 125.00
[2023.05.01]   Rns: Coin Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats taken out of sale
[2023.04.06]   Rns: On sale coin Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats with price 125.00
[2023.04.01]   Rns: Coin Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats taken out of sale
[2022.11.12]   Rns: On sale coin Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats with price 125.00
[2022.11.10]   Rns: Coin Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats taken out of sale
[2022.07.13]   baltcoin.lv: On sale coin Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats with price 210.00
[2022.05.19]   Rns: On sale coin Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats with price 125.00
[2022.05.15]   Rns: Coin Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats taken out of sale
[2022.05.12]   baltcoin.lv: Coin Fairy Tale Coin I. Five Cats taken out of sale