2022 FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE “White, Red, Black and Pale”; 5 oz HR Antiqued Silver Coin; $12 Niue

Description

Metal                    Silver

Purity                   0.999

Weight                 155,5 (5 Troy Oz)

Diameter              65 mm

Attributes             High Relief, Antique Finish, Edge Numbered, Selective Gold Gilding

Mintage                500

Packaging            Wooden Presentation Box with Sleeve and CoA

Each of the four initial coins highlighted one of the Four Horsemen, but the four legendary figures were always meant to come together to bring about the final apocalypse. That is exactly what the designers have done. Here, the mounted figures gallop into the open, weapons in hand, ready to end us all! The final release in this successful series! The 5 oz High Relief Pure silver coin is finished in an antique finish and rimless with selective yellow and red gold gilding. 

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described in the last book of the New Testament of the Bible, called the Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ to John of Patmos, at 6:1-8. The chapter tells of a book or scroll in God’s right hand that is sealed with seven seals. The Lamb of God opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons four beings that ride out on white, red, black, and pale horses.

Though theologians and popular culture differ on the first Horseman, the four riders are often seen as symbolizing Conquest or Pestilence (and less frequently, the Christ or the Antichrist), War, Famine, and Death. The Christian apocalyptic vision is that the Four Horsemen are to set a divine apocalypse upon the world as harbingers of the Last Judgment. One reading ties the Four Horsemen to the history of the Roman Empire subsequent to the era in which the Book of Revelation was written. That is, they are a symbolic prophecy of the subsequent history of the Empire.