2011 Pitcairn- Lunar Year of the Rabbit - Alice In Wonderland Silver Proof

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll . It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic in ways that have given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre, and its narrative course and structure have been enormously influential, especially in the fantasy genre.

The White Rabbit is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He appears at the very beginning of the book, in chapter one, wearing a waistcoat, and muttering “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” Alice follows him down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. Alice encounters him again when he mistakes her for his housemaid Mary Ann and she becomes trapped in his house after growing too large. The Rabbit shows up again in the last few chapters, as a herald-like servant of the King and Queen of Hearts. 

Lunar years of the Rabbit

1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011

Each coin is presented in unique packaging a replica clock which goes backwards as time goes back in wonderland. This is in turn enclosed within an outer box decorated with an image of the rabbit. Each 1oz Silver Coin comes with an individually numbered certificate of authenticity issued by New Zealand Mint