Clover Leaf Egg, 100 Dollars, Series: Imperial Fabergé Eggs

The Mint of Poland presents gold edition of the popular series “Imperial Fabergé Eggs”. “Clover Leaf Egg” coin is the third coin of the popular series “Imperial Fabergé Eggs”.

Low mintage, unique design, arranged in the shape of clovers, make the coin highly attractive for collectors.

Obverse:
At the bottom – open Spring Flowers Egg (1899-1903) with a miniature basket of wood anemones inside. Above – the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with the mint’s mark (m/w) and the inscription “ELIZABETH II” below. Around the Queen’s effigy – decorative neorococo scroll ornament. At the top – the issuer’s name: NIUE ISLAND. On the right – a nominal value of the coin (100 dollars), on the left – year of issue (2011).

Reverse:
In the center – the image of the “Clover Leaf Egg”. On the left side of the egg – an inscription: IMPERIAL. On the right side of the egg – an inscription: FABERGÉ EGGS. At the bottom, in the background – a delicate Art Nouveau ornament. At the top – a stylized relief with clover leafs.

Designer: Robert Kotowicz

The Clover Leaf Egg was made in 1902 of gold, platinum, rose-cut diamonds, rubies and bright green, transparent enamel. Tsar Nicholas II presented this jeweled egg as an Easter gift to his wife, Alexandra Fyodorovna. Thanks to extremely fragile and precise structure the egg is considered one of the finest examples of the jeweler’s art in the world. The transparent enamel was a new method in art, which placed on the Egg with no supporting base, looks perfectly smooth till nowadays.

The “surprise” from inside of the egg has been lost but according to the archives four leaves with 23 diamonds and 4 portrait miniatures of princesses, daughters of Tsar couple.

The Clover Leaf Egg never left Russia and is since 1933 housing in the Kremlin Armoury Museum in Moscow. Because of its fragile nature, The Clover Leaf Egg does not travel.