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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.


A '''Dragon Coin''' (or '''Yoshi Coin''') is a type of [[Coin]] only found in ''[[Super Mario World]]'' and subsequent remakes.
==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.


There are at least five Dragon Coins littered around every level in the game (except the Chocolate Island Secret level which only has one). Collecting five of them is the equivalent of collecting 100 Gold Coins, awarding a 1-Up for the player. On rare occasions, one may encounter six or more Dragon Coins in a single level; in these cases, every Dragon Coin after and including the fifth will award a 1-Up. In ''Super Mario World's'' [[Game Boy Advance]] remake, ''[[Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World]]'', the amount of Dragon Coins acquired are recorded on a menu, and if the player collects them all, the Coins will transform into Peach Coins.
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>


A Dragon Coin features an engraving of a [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]] head.
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>


Most of the games in the [[Yoshi Series]] (such as ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' and ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]'') depict their Coins (both in-game and in official artwork) as having Yoshis engraved on them rather than having the standard Mario "1" indent. This makes them look exactly like smaller Dragon Coins, and may suggest that all Coins found on [[Yoshi's Island (place)|Yoshi's Island]] were at least once Dragon Coins.
===''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.''
 
==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
|Jap=ドラゴンコイン
|JapR=Doragon Koin
|JapM=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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Latest revision as of 21:55, September 6, 2024

Dragon Coin
Artwork of a Dragon Coin from Super Mario World
Artwork from Super Mario World
First appearance Super Mario World (1990)
Latest appearance The Super Mario Bros. Movie (cameo) (2023)
“The big coins are Dragon Coins. If you pick up five of these in an area, you get a 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's head and torso imprinted on it.

History[edit]

Super Mario World / Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2[edit]

A screenshot of Mario finding a Dragon Coin in Super Mario World
Dragon Coin

In Super Mario World, at least five Dragon Coins appear in most levels, although places such as castles, Ghost Houses, and fortresses 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 points, 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 Heavens, 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 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 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 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.[1]

The Dragon Coin's collection sound effect was reused for the Advance Coins in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, the Star Coins in the New Super Mario Bros. games, and the color coins in Super Mario Run. In New Super Mario Bros., the sound effect is internally labeled "SE_OBJ_GET_DRAGON_COIN."[2]

Game & Watch Gallery 4[edit]

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

WarioWare: Get It Together![edit]

In WarioWare: Get It Together!, Dragon Coins appear in the microgame Super Mario World. Collecting them is not necessary to complete the microgame and has no real effect on gameplay, although the "Dragon Coin Collection" 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[edit]

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[edit]

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island[edit]

Dragon Coins were 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 Challenges.[3] They were possibly replaced by flowers. The sprite for them is not present in the Game Boy Advance port at all.

Profiles[edit]

Super Mario World[edit]

  • Wii U Virtual Console manual description: Collect five Dragon Coins in a course to earn an extra life.

Gallery[edit]

See also[edit]

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ドラゴンコイン[?]
Doragon Koin 		Dragon Coin
Chinese (simplified) 龙币 (Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2)[?]
Lóng Bì 		Dragon Coin
龙金币 (WarioWare: Get It Together!)[?]
Lóng Jīnbì
Chinese (traditional) 龍金幣[?]
Lóng Jīnbì 		Dragon Coin
French Pièce Dragon[?] Dragon Coin
German Drachenmünze[4] Dragon Coin
Italian Moneta del Drago[5][6] Coin of the Dragon Super Mario World
Moneta drago[7][8] Dragon coin Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Super Mario World on Virtual Console
Moneta Drago[?] Dragon Coin WarioWare: Get It Together!
Portuguese (NOA) Moeda Dragão[?] Dragon Coin
Spanish Moneda Dragón[?] Dragon Coin

Trivia[edit]

Sprite of a Coin, from Yoshi's Safari.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Winter 2002. Nintendo Power Advance Volume 4. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 18.
  2. ^ TCRF. New Super Mario Bros.#Sound Effects. The Cutting Room Floor. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  3. ^ Proto:Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island/ys romX 0/Bonus Challenges. The Cutting Room Floor. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  4. ^ Menold, Marcus, Claude M. Moyse, and Andreas G. Kämmerer, editors (1993). Der offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater "Super Mario World". Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 17.
  5. ^ Super Mario World instruction booklet. Nintendo (Italian). Page 7.
  6. ^ Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Page 61.
  7. ^ 2002. Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 European instruction booklet. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 107-108.
  8. ^ Super Mario World (Virtual Console). Page 7.
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