Rabbit season? Year of the Rabbit

RedTiger

Does anyone have coins with a rabbit on them?

For those that celebrate, Happy New Year, it is the Year of the Rabbit.

JamesMurray

Ireland might have issued a coin with a rabbit , Canada did i'm almost sure , here's mine

trozau

For Vietnamese folks, it is the Year of the Cat instead.

JamesMurray

Here's one for our Vietnamese chums

jt88

I ilke that tiger. Very nice coin.

RMLTM79

JamesMurray

<< <i>I ilke that tiger. Very nice coin. >>



Thanks jt88 , it's a huge improvement on the 1999 Leaping tiger.

RedTiger

Thanks for the coin images guys. I especially appreciate the Tiger (the year that is ending) because of my forum handle (RedTiger).

I have a couple of the Ireland 3 pence coins


and some of the 1967 Canada centennial rabbit nickels


* (images are from different dealer sites)

JamesMurray

lol : ) The penny just dropped for me Red Tiger , that's the 1999 Aussie Gold you have for an avatar , these are getting pricey now : )

Here's another wabbit for our collection of photos , i found this one online.

OchoReales

<< <i>For Vietnamese folks, it is the Year of the Cat instead. >>



The Year of the Cat by Al Stewart

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears

By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat

Well, she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Well, morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on

But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat


What a great tune. I remember it well!