The Saker Falcon is Mongolia’s national bird. The bird is widely known for its size, as well as it’s incredible eyesight and hunting skills. The Saker Falcon was only recently declared the national bird of Mongolia. They decided to honor its strength and gallantry and name it their national bird in November of 2012. It is the second largest falcon in the world, and is a very skilled hunter. The species is endangered for many reasons, such as habitat ...

Learn the brilliant art of quilling with the new Flowers Quilling Art coin from the Cook Islands. Quilling is an art that dates back to the Renaissance, when French and Italian nuns used quilling to decorate religious items with hand curled strips of paper. Usually, the paper used was the strips of paper trimmed from the edges of the books. These pieces of paper were rolled into patterns similar to the ironwork popular during those days. Quilling is having a ...

This rare, highly detailed coin features beautiful Tiffany glass to portray a beautiful Chhatri on the Gadi Sagar Lake, as well as the temple of Adeshwar Nath. A Chhatri is a monument made in the place where a Holkar ruler was cremated in order to honor his or her memory. Some of the most famous chhatris include those dedicated to Tukoji and Shivaji Rao, Maharani Krishnabai, and Bolia Sahnib. Chhartri monuments needed to be built of stone, as to stay strong ...

With impressive high relief and rose gold. This coin so-to-speak celebrates the evolution of life with its depiction of an ammonite in sensational high relief. At first glance, ammonites appear to resemble snails and sea snails, however, these marine animals were closer related to squids. Gas-filled chambers within the shell enabled the ammonites to move up and down in the water. This allowed them to search for food or escape their enemies, the ...

Depicting the Peacock beautiful fan in the form of a coin is a challenge skillfully overcome by this fancy colored coin. How daring of the coin's designers to vividly reproduce the fine mesh of peacock feathers. The sensational high-relief technique and the use of colors represent the color spectrum of peacock feathers in a near-lifelike manner and make this coin a real rarity. There are few animals that can compete with the spectacular courtship behavior of a ...

This coin is a great example for how unique the shape of a coin can be. After all, it was inspired by a special topic: the space-time continuum. Whoever associates space-time continuum with Einstein is correct, because space-time is related to the theory of relativity. It is a four dimensional structure that joins space and time, and takes into account the speed of the light. Even Aristotle explored the concept of space-time. The general theory of relativity later ...

Can a coin accurately feature a deep, crater-like meteorite impact? This silver coin can, and it even includes a piece of a real meteorite. NWA 4037 is the meteorite that impacted in Northwest Africa in 2005, more precisely in Morocco. The pieces discovered in Morocco are actually from various impacts, as the meteorite broke into many pieces when it entered into the Earth's atmosphere. The coin has a concave shape that resembles the crater created with the impact ...

This antique finished silver coin arrives in a special wooden collectors box, and includes a 1-ounce piece of authentic samurai armor. The coin depicts a full color samurai battle, while the other side shows the profile of Queen Elizabeth II, as well as the coin’s value of $5. Minted in the Cook Islands in 2015, this 1-ounce coin is 38.61 millimeters in diameter and boasts .999 purity. The samurai were a powerful military caste in feudal Japan, whose honor and ...

Like a fossilized dream from 1001 nights: The impressive Moorish Alhambra palace in Granada is the subject of this coin featuring Tiffany glass art. 'Alhambra' can be translated to mean 'red Castle' and refers to the impressive structure atop a hill in the Spanish city of Granada. The name goes back to Muhammad Ibn Yusuf Nasr. In 1238, he established the reign of the Nasrids from Medina in Granada. In the 14th century, the Arab poet Ibn Zamrak described the ...

This silver coin arrives in a special, wooden collectors box. It features an array of tiny, colorful murine millefiori glass inlays, while the coin’s other side shows the profile of Queen Elizabeth II, as well as its value of $5. Minted in the Cook Islands in 2015, this 20-gram coin is 65 millimeters in diameter and boasts .999 purity. A murine is an Italian term for a colored pattern or image made from long rods of glass. The patterns or images are only ...