Tuvalu SAMURAI Series GREAT WARRIORS $1 Silver Coin 2010 Proof 1 oz

✔ The coin’s coloured reverse portrays a Samurai in full armour.  Each suit of Japanese armour (kikou), Japanese helmet (kabuto) and Japanese sword(katana) are believed to have a soul or chi.
✔ Issued as legal tender under the authority of the Government of Tuvalu, the coin depicts the Raphael Maklouf effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the 2010 year-date on the obverse.
✔ No more than 5,000 Samurai coins will be released.
✔ Each coin is housed in a presentation case and illustrated shipper accompanied by a numbered Certificate of Authenticity
✔ Silver Coin SAMURAI 2010 "Great Warriors” Series is a perfect gift coin for Birthday or any special occasion for a loved one!

Samurai (侍^?) were the military-nobility and officer-caste of medieval and early-modern Japan. In Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi (武士, [bu.ɕi]) or buke (武家). According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning "to wait upon" or "accompany persons" in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean "those who serve in close attendance to the nobility", the pronunciation in Japanese changing to saburai. According to Wilson, an early reference to the word "samurai" appears in the Kokin Wakashū (905–914), the first imperial anthology of poems, completed in the first part of the 10th century. By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi, and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai were usually associated with a clan and their lord, were trained as officers in military tactics and grand strategy, and they followed a set of rules that later came to be known as the bushidō. While the samurai numbered less than 10% of then Japan's population, their teachings can still be found today in both everyday life and in modern Japanese martial arts.

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