Palau – 2008 – 1 Dollar – Red Corn Poppy (PROOF)

Description

Metal: Gold .9999
Weight: 0.5 g
Diameter: 11 mm
Quality: Proof
Mintage: 25’000 pcs.

In English speaking regions the red poppy has an important meaning; it is a symbol in memory for soldiers killed in action. Thus the Remembrance Day for war victims is also called Poppy Day. It is celebrated every year on the 11th. November; on the day the weapons were silenced in the First World War.

A wonderful poem written by John McCrae (1872-1918), who was a Canadian Lieutenant Colonel and doctor in the Netherlands in the First World War and who experienced the whole wartime atrocities at first hand, refers to the Corn Poppy as a symbol for this Remembrance Day.

In forceful words he portrays a beautiful but weird image of totally destroyed fields with a see of blooming vivid red Corn Poppies between bomb craters and soldiers killed in action