Editing Dragon Coin

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|image=[[File:SMW Dragon Coin.jpg|115px]]<br>Artwork from ''Super Mario World''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario World]]'' ([[List of games by date#1990|1990]]) 
|latest_appearance=''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' (cameo) (2023)
}}
{{quote|The big coins are Dragon Coins. If you pick up five of these in an area, you get a [[extra life|1 UP]].|[[Message Block]] in [[Yoshi's Island 3]]|[[Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2]]}}
A '''Dragon Coin''' is a large [[coin]] that first appears in ''[[Super Mario World]]''. It has a picture of a [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]]'s head and torso imprinted on it.

==History==
===''Super Mario World'' / ''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2''===
[[File:Vine SMW.png|thumb|A screenshot of Mario finding a Dragon Coin in ''Super Mario World'']]
[[File:DragonCoin.gif|frame|left]]
In ''Super Mario World'', at least five Dragon Coins appear in most [[level]]s, although places such as [[castle]]s, [[Ghost House]]s, and [[fortress]]es have no Dragon Coins. Collecting a Dragon Coins plays a unique sound effect, and it is also counted as one coin. The first four coins collected give 1,000, 2,000, 4,000, and 8,000 [[point]]s, respectively, and collecting all five in a level awards the player an [[extra life]]. [[Yoshi's Wings]] can be used to access certain auto-scrolling [[Coin Heaven]]s, where five Dragon Coins can be found. Six or more Dragon Coins may rarely appear in a level, with every Dragon Coin after the fifth also rewarding an extra life. In these levels, going through a [[Warp Pipe]] to a new area causes all remaining Dragon Coins to disappear if [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] has already collected at least five of them, making the remaining ones unobtainable. [[Chocolate Secret]] is unique for having only one Dragon Coin.

For the [[Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2|Game Boy Advance version]], Dragon Coins were given a slightly bigger role. They now appear in levels that did not originally have them, and the number of Dragon Coins acquired is recorded on a menu. If the player collects them all, a cutscene plays, showing all of the collected Dragon Coins falling from the sky and being stacked together; afterwards, a giant Dragon Coin appears, and [[Yoshi]] eats it and lays an [[Yoshi's Egg|egg]], which hatches into a giant coin with [[Princess Peach]]'s face, resulting in all of the Dragon Coins in the game having Peach's face imprinted on them instead of Yoshi's. Chocolate Secret now has the standard set of five Dragon Coins. In the ''[[Nintendo Power#Nintendo Power Advance|Nintendo Power Advance]]'' guide for ''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2'', the symbol for the Dragon Coins denoting where they are located in a level is drawn with a three-tined fork instead of Yoshi's or Peach's likeness.<ref>{{cite|title=''Nintendo Power Advance'' Volume 4|page=18|date=Winter 2002|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref>

The Dragon Coin's collection sound effect was reused for the [[Advance Coin]]s in ''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', the [[Star Coin]]s in the [[New Super Mario Bros. (disambiguation)|''New Super Mario Bros.'' games]], and the [[color coin]]s in ''[[Super Mario Run]]''. In ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'', the sound effect is internally labeled "<tt>SE_OBJ_GET_DRAGON_COIN</tt>."<ref>{{cite|author=TCRF|title=[[tcrf:New Super Mario Bros.#Sound Effects|New Super Mario Bros.#Sound Effects]]|publisher=The Cutting Room Floor|accessdate=February 18, 2019}}</ref>

===''Game & Watch Gallery 4''===
In ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 4]]'', a Dragon Coin is used to represent five KOs in the Modern version of ''[[Boxing]]''.

===''WarioWare: Get It Together!''===
In ''[[WarioWare: Get It Together!]]'', Dragon Coins appear in the microgame [[Super Mario World (WarioWare: Get It Together!)|Super Mario World]]. Collecting them is not necessary to complete the [[microgame]] and has no real effect on gameplay, although the "Dragon Coin Collection" [[List of WarioWare: Get It Together! missions|mission]] requires the player to collect at least four Dragon Coins in all three levels while playing as [[Jimmy T]].

===''The Super Mario Bros. Movie''===
In ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', a display box containing a Dragon Coin with the same appearance as its ''Super Mario World'' sprite can be seen in the antiques shop.

===Unused appearances===
====''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''====
Dragon Coins were [[List of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island pre-release and unused content|originally]] going to appear in ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'', where they were going to be a currency along with regular coins for some of the [[Bonus Challenge]]s.<ref>{{cite|title=[[tcrf:Proto:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island/ys romX 0/Bonus Challenges|Proto:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island/ys romX 0/Bonus Challenges]]|publisher=The Cutting Room Floor|accessdate=October 30, 2021}}</ref> They were possibly replaced by [[Smiley Flower|flower]]s. The sprite for them is not present in the [[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3|Game Boy Advance port]] at all. 
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==Profiles==
===''Super Mario World''===
*'''Wii U Virtual Console manual description:''' ''Collect five Dragon Coins in a course to earn an extra life.''

===''Super Mario World: Super Mario Land 2''===
*'''European instruction manual description:''' ''Collect 5 or more on a single course to receive an extra life. (Dragon Coins may also be included in the normal coin count total.)''

==Gallery==
<gallery>
YoshiCoin SMW.png|''[[Super Mario World]]''
SMW2DragonCoin.png|''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' (unused) 
Wendy's Kids Meal 2002 Mario bag 1.jpg|Front of a [[Wendy's]] Kids' Meal bag from 2002
Peach Coin.png|''[[Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2]]''
SMA2-PeachCoin.png|A Dragon Coin with [[Princess Peach]]'s face, seen when all regular Dragon Coins are collected, in ''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2''
G&WG4 Modern Boxing Yoshi Coin.png|''[[Game & Watch Gallery 4]]''
SMWGPB1 Cover.png|Cover of ''Super Mario Wisdom Games Picture Book 1: Search for the Dragon Coin''
SMWGPB1 Mario Meeting Yoshi.png|''Super Mario Wisdom Games Picture Book 1: Search for the Dragon Coin''
SMWGPB1 Mario Yoshi Consolation.png|''Super Mario Wisdom Games Picture Book 1: Search for the Dragon Coin''
SMSQPB5 Roller Coaster.png|''Super Mario Story Quiz Picture Book 5: Mario's Amusement Park''
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Smiley Flower]]
*[[Ace Coin]]
*[[Advance Coin]]

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=ドラゴンコイン
|JpnR=Doragon Koin
|JpnM=Dragon Coin
|ChiS=龙币 (''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2'')
|ChiSR=Lóng Bì
|ChiS2=龙金币 (''WarioWare: Get It Together!'')
|ChiS2R=Lóng Jīnbì
|ChiSM=Dragon Coin
|ChiS2M=Dragon Coin
|ChiT=龍金幣
|ChiTR=Lóng Jīnbì
|ChiTM=Dragon Coin
|Fre=Pièce Dragon
|FreM=Dragon Coin
|Ger=Drachenmünze<ref>{{cite|author=Menold, Marcus, Claude M. Moyse, and Andreas G. Kämmerer, editors|title=''Der offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater "Super Mario World"''|language=de|location=Großostheim|publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of Europe GmbH]]|date=1993|page=17}}</ref>
|GerM=Dragon Coin
|Ita=Moneta del Drago<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario World'' instruction booklet|page=7|language=it|publisher=Nintendo}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|page=61}}</ref>
|ItaN=''Super Mario World''
|Ita2=Moneta drago<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2'' European instruction booklet|page=107-108|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|date=2002|language=it}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario World]]'' ([[Virtual Console]])|page=7}}</ref>
|Ita2N=''Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2'', ''Super Mario World'' on Virtual Console
|Ita3=Moneta Drago
|Ita3N=''WarioWare: Get It Together!''
|ItaM=Coin of the Dragon
|Ita2M=Dragon coin
|Ita3M=Dragon Coin
|Spa=Moneda Dragón
|SpaM=Dragon Coin
|PorA=Moeda Dragão
|PorAM=Dragon Coin
}}

==Trivia==
[[File:YoshisSafari-Coin.png|frame]]
*''[[Yoshi's Safari]]'' and every game of the [[Yoshi's Island (series)|''Yoshi's Island'' series]] feature coins with a Yoshi's head on them rather than the normal coin design. The coins on the ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' version of the course [[Yoshi's Island (race course)|Yoshi's Island]] also features this design, as the course is heavily inspired by ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''. The coins in ''[[Yoshi's Crafted World]]'' feature a depiction of a [[Yoshi's Egg]] instead; however, the larger [[10-Coin|10 Coin]]s depict Yoshi's head, similar to Dragon Coins.
*The [[Plessie Medal]]s found in the ''Bowser's Fury'' campaign of ''[[Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury]]'' bear similarities to Dragon Coins.

==References==
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