1 TROY OUNCE Champagne White Star MIRROR-FINISH SOLID .999 FINE INVESTMENT-GRADE SILVER PROOF



ONLY 3000 TO BE MINTED



The Mucha Collection’s fourth coin in the series is Champagne White Star. Alphonse Mucha worked with a very prominent champagne company producing catalogues, postcards and posters. In 1899 for their lighter champagne, he produced the poster Champagne White Star. The piece portrays a sensual blonde in a pink dress baring her shoulders and holding a bowl of grapes. The beautiful woman is surrounded by grape vines.





World renowned artist/painter Alphonse Mucha was born in the Czech Republic in 1860. At the early age of 17, Mucha resolves to become a professional painter and set out to begin his art studies in Munich. Mucha moved to Paris in the late 1800s, continuing his studies and becoming very successful producing magazine and advertising illustrations. It was about 1895 that Mucha produced posters for plays catapulting his success. He produced a flurry of posters, advertisements, paintings and book illustrations. Mucha also designed wallpaper, jewelry, and even theatre sets.





The "Mucha Style" became known as Art Nouveau which is French for new art. The Art Nouveau period was most famous from 1890 - 1910.





Mucha moved to Prague continuing with his brilliant art decorating landmarks around the city with murals. When Czechoslovakia gained its independence, Mucha designed new postage stamps, banknotes, and government documents. He continued his art through to 1939 when he passed.



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Alphonse Mucha was best known for his art of beautiful women which will be portrayed in this coin series.





Sculpt by Master Sculptor Luigi Badia



Presented by Julie Lindquist of Anonymous Mint



Fully Authorized by the Mucha Foundation





EACH COIN IS NUMBERED ON THE RIM AND THAT NUMBER MATCHES THE NUMBERED CERTIFICATE



THERE IS ONLY 3000 OF THESE COINS TO BE MINTED AND WILL SHOW ON THE COA PAPERWORK (EX. 250 OF 3000)



COA NUMBERS WILL VARY



Condition Proof-Numbered on rim of coin-Signed matching number COA

Material .999 Fine Silver





Product Size 39 mm

Weight 1 troy oz / 31.1 gr



THESE ARE PROOFS WITH A MIRROR FINISH