The Rare Birds of Taiwan – The Yellow Tit Colored Silver Medal

99.9% Pure Silver

38 mm

1 oz.

3,000 pieces

The Yellow Tit is endemic to Taiwan's mid- to low-altitude mountainous regions. It has a striking, often bi-colored crest. Much of the body is light yellow. Its chirping is melodious. Among the birds endemic to Taiwan, the Yellow Tit is favored with beautiful shape, coloration, and musical sound, and is among the rarest, making it well deserving of enhanced protection. This image features the Yellow Tit as photographed by Mr. Alan Huang.

A“ru-yi”is a traditional Chinese art object, a talismanic wand usually manufactured from precious or semi-precious materials such as jade, chalcedony, carnelian, etc. that has the power to grant wishes. In ancient times, it was given as a gift from emperors and empresses to nobles and ministers. In later times, it was a precious gift mutually presented by wealthy families to express the wish that all things be as desired. In the image, the two persimmons “shr-shr” mean“everything,” and the magic wand“ru-yi”means“as desired,” by virtue of being homophones, and they constitute a rebus reading:“May Everything Be As Desired.”