Through the Looking-Glass

2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Through the Looking-Glass, the highly anticipated sequel to the universally adored Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under his better-known pen name Lewis Carroll, the story follows Alice on another unique and epic adventure into Looking-Glass House, where everything seems rather backwards and logic is turned on its head. The narrative continues with a stream of playful nonsense, no better epitomised than by two of the book’s most iconic characters, Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The twins feature on the coin design, which is based on an original illustration by Sir John Tenniel that was used in the first publication of Through the Looking-Glass. Available as a one ounce and quarter-ounce gold Proof coin, a half-ounce silver Proof coin, a one ounce colour-printed silver Proof coin, a standard Brilliant Uncirculated edition, and a colour-printed Brilliant Uncirculated edition, this coin is a wonderful tribute to one of the most imaginative tales in literary history.