Description

Gabriel, the archangel, announced to the Virgin Mary that she had been chosen to bear the Son of God (Luke 1:27-38).

Because of this, he has traditionally become associated with other message-bearing angels in the Bible: appearing to Zacharias to tell him that his wife Elizabeth would have a son, to Joachim, the father of the Virgin Mary, and, in the Old Testament, to the mother of Samson, in the same role.

In paintings of the Annunciation, he appears before the Virgin carrying a lily, his attribute, and sometimes with a scroll on which the words he greeted her in Saint Luke’s Gospel are written.

• Contains 1 oz. Troy of .999 Fine Silver
• Obverse: Archangel Gabriel standing on a brick platform with right hand extended, on a backdrop of Greek columns and structure.  “GABRIEL ARCHANGEL” above.
• Reverse: Large Intaglio Mint logo surrounded by plain border reading “ONE TROY OUNCE” above and “.999 FINE SILVER,” separated by six stars on either side”