It took some weeks, but yesterday the coin came in, 25 days in the post from the US to NL. Well, I've seen worse. It's just as nice and lovable as I hoped it to be. And to be precise: the weight is 0.52g, diameter 9 mm. Here it is, with its dotty companion.
@Pellinore, another metaphor, given the season, might be the scrawny tree in the early feature-length cartoon, "A Charlie Brown Christmas." ...Except, along the lines of saying (as I did), 'If I could read Any of that, it would Pop. ...That tree got some love, and look what happened.