New German €5 "Planet Earth" Coin

Hi Christian,
I'm a Bank clerk

 

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Aaaargh. Comes close to unfair competition, hehe. In case you can keep the roll, enjoy!

 

I don't believe so....we opened this roll already for our customers...aargh

 

Here we are

 

Next year Germany will start issuing a new series of such coins with colored rings. Five issues, one per year, and the theme is the climate zones of our planet. Mintage 2 million per year (unc) plus 300,000 (proof). Those collector coins do not circulate, but apparently the polymer ring pieces are popular ...

2017: Tropical (red)
2018: Subtropical (orange)
2019: Moderate (green)
2020: Subpolar (turquoise)
2021: Polar (violet)

Christian

 

Or, red, very heavy rain
orange, heavy rain
green, showers to sprinkles
turquoise, snow
violet, heavy snow

 

Did Al Gore approve of those climate zones and mintages?

 

Aaaaaaaah. Went to a coin show in Dortmund today http://www.westfaelische-muenzenmesse.de where one of the attractions was a wheel of fortune, sort of - you could turn the wheel, and if the pointer stopped in a marked field, you would get one of those €5 with the polymer ring. Now I never win anything (also because I don't play the lottery or so ...) but today I did win one of those coins. A well invested admission fee, hehe.

Christian

 

I can't help wondering how hard you have to push to pop the middle out.

 

Well, this one I gave away, so I would need another sample to try it out ... Guess that, like a bimetallic coin, it would not survive a brute force attack. But since the €5 pieces are not made for circulation, and people are willing to pay more than face value for an intact piece, there won't be many who have taken theirs apart.

Christian

 

There are always a few who can't resist , a Coin doktor might substitute a red ring as an error.

 

Here we have the design of the next one, to be issued in April. What you are supposed to see is a parrot (and a few background birds) plus some tropical tree giants. Oh well, not boring and not thrilling in my opinion ...

Christian