BIG FIVE Silver Coin Set Ancient Civilizations World's Largest Ounce 2012 Proof

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BIG FIVE Series - The World's Largest Silver Ounces!

After the huge success of the BIG FIVE - Africa and BIG FIVE - Five Continents silver sets issued in 2010 by Rwanda and 2011 by the Cook Islands as the largest silver coins in the world, the Cook Islands are again releasing a third set of these unique coins for 2012 - weighing 1 ounce and measuring an incredible 65mm in diameter - this time dedicated to the ancient civilizations of the world: Egypt, Mayan civilization, Babylon, Greece, China.

The coins depict the most famous architectural motifs typical of the civilization in question. Above the portrait is the name of the ancient empire, below it the purity, the weight with the word "BIG", the face value in the middle. The obverse shows a traditional portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian-Rank Broadley and the inscriptions "ELIZABETH II", "COOK ISLANDS" and the year of issue.

These beautiful silver coins come in a truly large, wooden case along with a certificate of authenticity in a limited edition of only 3,000 pieces for the entire world!

Egypt

Ancient Egyptian civilization lasted and developed continuously for over three millennia, and the Egyptians were aware of this continuity and made it part of their historical memory - throughout history, in periods of crisis or decline, they turned to their past for inspiration for contemporary cultural and political concepts. It emerged at the end of the 4th millennium BC from prehistoric and pre-dynastic cultures (notably the Badarian, Merimdic and Nakadian cultures) when the first Egyptian dynasty and the single centralized state ruled by that dynasty were established around 3150 BC.

The Mayan civilization

The territory of the Maya civilization (c. 2500 BC - 1520/1697 AD) and the territory inhabited by numerous Maya peoples extended over the entire Yucatán Peninsula and the opposite territory up to the Pacific Ocean, i.e., more precisely, all of present-day Guatemala, all of present-day Belize, northwestern Honduras, the Mexican states of Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Chiapas, and the eastern Mexican state of Tabasco.

Babel

Babylon, or Gate of God (from Akkadian Bab-ilu), unaccented Babylon, Greek ???????, also Babel (meaning "confusion") in the Bible (Genesis and Psalms), was an important city-state in southern Mesopotamia, in later times the capital of Babylonia and the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Its ruins lie 88 kilometres south of Baghdad near the city of al-Hillah on the Euphrates, in what is now Iraq.

China

The first historically documented Chinese dynasty was the Xia dynasty. However, it was long regarded as a mere legend until excavations of the earlier Bronze Age site of Er-li-tchou in Henan Province were carried out. Since then, archaeologists have uncovered tombs and found bronze objects pointing to the possible existence of the Xia dynasty at sites cited in ancient Chinese texts.

Another dynasty, this time already historically credible, was the Shang dynasty, which settled along the Yellow River in eastern China between the 18th and 12th centuries B.C. The dynasty was then invaded from the west by the Zhou tribes, who then ruled until the 5th century B.C., but their authority was gradually weakened. During the Spring and Autumn period (referred to by the Book of Confucius) there were many independent states at war with each other, claiming the dynasty in name only.

Greece

Ancient Greece, or Ancient Greece, is a term referring to the historical period of Greek history that began around 800 BC and ended at the height of Christianity. Many historians consider the period of ancient Greece to be the epoch of the emergence of modern Western civilization.