Chinese Panda with a piece of XVI-century meteorite
The Atlas of Meteorites is a series of coins whose assumption is presenting the most popular bullion coins combined with the pieces of meteorites which have fallen down in the country issuing the coin. The theme of the first issue alluded to China – an image of Panda from 2016 was weighed against a piece of Fukang meteorite found in Sinciang in 2000.
In the second version of the series the issuer remained faithful to China as he combined the Panda from 2015 sitting on the branch with Nantan meteorite. Its fall dates to 1516, however the first pieces were found only in the middle of 20 th century. A study has found that it is built mainly from iron.
The coin owes its charming colouring to two procedures. Both the obverse and reverse sides have been coated with rose gold which ornaments mainly the rim, the temple and the body of the panda. The modern UV printing technique is responsible for all the remaining colourful elements – thanks to this fact, what was incredibly faithfully rendered was the purple glistening sky and a flaming meteorite with an ending composed of a piece of a real Nantan meteorite.
The volume of this issue has been limited to 500 pieces for the whole world and each certificate enclosed to the coin is numbered.
Author: Anita Jaworska