Silver Ounce 2011 Kagaya - Cancer, Coin from Niue - detailed information

Niue, a sovereign state in free association with New Zealand, uses two official legal tender currencies. The New Zealand Dollar is the circulation currency for daily transactions, while the government also authorises legal tender coins in the Niue Dollar currency for collector's purposes.

A number of mints issue a large variety of commemorative, bullion and collector coins under the authority of Niue. These coins are dedicated to historical or general popular culture themes not related to Niue itself. Many of them are in standard bullion sizes - typically, one ounce of silver (abbreviated as 1 oz Ag, where "Ag" comes from the Latin word for silver, Argentum). Many of these have a Zodiac-inspired theme.

This rectangular silver ounce coin featuring the sign Cancer is part of a twelve-coin series dedicated to the Signs of the Zodiac and illustrated, in full colour, with drawings by famed Japanese artist Yutaka Kagaya.

A modern Japanese digital painter, Yutaka Kagaya gained huge popularity among admirers of exquisite romantic, hypnotising beautiful fantasy pictures.

Cancer's nature is fully revealed in the moonlight, which is very suitable to their passing moods and emotions. Persons under the Cancer sign posses a very contagious laughter. At any party, they can be the most fun person and you may hear his/her “crazy lunar laugh.” If Cancer is not kidding himself/herself, then he/she is laughing at the jokes of others. But when the Cancer is distressed, a state of sadness and insecurity forces them to seek solitude, as the real cancers do.