The Silver Owl to come

http://news.coinupdate.com/arbua-shoco-owl-silver-coin-with-augmented-reality-1490/

 

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http://www.knm.nl/Aruba-5-Florin-Shoco-2012-Zilver-Proof/nl/product/2597/

The color doesn't look that great. This might be a step down for this mint.

 

How does it work?

 

Which an adroid phone, I believe.

 

Very nice. I might just have to get one of these, since my last name means owl in Polish.

Theres another silver coin out there that has an owls face on one side of the coin, I forget what country it's from, but it looks VERY awesome. It's very expensive though. The few examples I saw on eBay last time I checked were all going for over $600.

 

Or you can get one because it is fun. Here is the thing about that coin. What will happen in 150 years from now when your iphone stops working?

 

I didn't think of that. When this is an ancient coin nodoy will care less about the ipod interface.

 

nodoy ipod bepad throughout the galaxy.

 

We cointalked about this issue before; am not interested in having that in my collection. As far as I know, the Layar app is available for both Android and iOS. Here you can see a KNM video (with what I think is Juanjo Sanchez's voice) about the piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyBnk9GOnZk

Christian

 

Hello Chris

I don't normally say such things, but really, this idea is retarded and whoever hatched it should be demoted until they reach legal drinking age.

Sweets

Amanda

 

Well I hate to say it but "I don't give a hoot"

 

Not nice indeed. Well, many mints in the world are "independent" profit centers even when they are owned by governments. So there is a certain pressure to make money with the money they make - and that results in issues like this one. They may not be appealing from the point of view of a collector whose aim is to complete some historic coin series. But apparently there are enough people who read about such a novelty piece, think "hey, cute" and buy it. See Fiji, Cook Islands, Liberia etc., and the mints in Canada and France, for example, go in the same direction ...

Juanjo Sánchez sure got a lot of reactions and "media echo" when he designed the Dutch Muntgebouw coin last year, with the QR code field. And since the mint in Utrecht makes the Aruban coins, he just went one step further. By the way, you don't need to buy that coin to find out where the Layar code takes you. Just click here: http://www.knm.nl/shoco

Christian

 

It is hard to follow an Owl in its native Dutch.

 

Those Aruban owls are multilingual; Papiamento is their primary language, I think.

(Image from that website.)

Christian

 

Scan there foreheads.