2021 1 oz Niue Disney Donald & Daisy Duck Heart Red Love Silver Coin
 
Gold and Silver Bullion canada is proud to present you another edition of Donald and Daisy in love. This stunning .999 fine Silver coin depicts Donald and Daisy Duck.
 
Donald Duck’s First Appearance
During Disney’s time of experimenting with new animation styles and introducing new characters into their stories, they realized how well the animal characters did, like the two main mice. The Silly Symphony film series explored these different types of animal characters, like squirrels in Autumn (1930), fish in Frolicking Fish (1930), and owls in Night (1930). The Silly Symphonies continued to evolve, adding color in 1932, and introducing characters we still know today like the Three Little Pigs. Walt’s next idea was to add a duck to the gang, and this idea sprouted from hearing the voice of radio performer Clarence Nash.
 
Clarence had been working on a radio show called The Merrymakers, where he specialized in animal impressions. He mostly did birds, but he did have a performance of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” with his duck voice. One day, while he was travelling via milk wagon, he stopped by the Walt Disney Studios and was asked to audition. Between the distinctive voice heard on the radio and his stellar impressions, Walt and his team knew they had found their duck. Before becoming Donald, Nash provided bird sound effects for the January 1932 short film The Bird Store. He continued to add background sounds to the Silly Symphony cartoons until he was finally officially introduced as Donald Duck in the 1934. Donald’s first short was called The Wise Little Hen, where he is seen as a more realistic duck, with a longer bill and neck. Disney animator Fred Spencer was responsible for the conception of the duck, and was the expert on him in the character’s early years. Donald appeared in 10 more shorts from 1934 to 1936 before his appearance changed to the anthropomorphic duck in the short Moving Day.
 
Daisy Duck’s First Appearance
After almost a decade of Donald and his successes in 20 other Disney cartoons, it was time to bring in a mate for him. Donald’s nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, were introduced in the appropriately-titled Donald’s Nephews short in 1938. With his family growing, Daisy finally made her official debut in Mr. Duck Steps Out (1940). Originally, Clarence Nash took on the role of Daisy as well, much like how Mickey and Minnie shared Walt as their original voice actor. The cartoon was directed by Jack King and written by Carl Barks, whom created the famous Donald Duck comics in the 1930s through to the 1960s.
 
Daisy was the last of the “sensational six” to be introduced, and became a staple character in 1941’s Nifty Nineties, which was a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Daisy appeared in 10 more Donald Duck cartoons through the 1940s, where she starred as a lead character in a handful.
(Source DisneyClassic.com)
 
Important Note: The plating/colorization on this coin was made by a third-party experienced company!