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For the Cook Islands, CIT Coin Invest AG has designed a new silver coin as part of the Meteorite Impacts series. Just like its predecessors, the issue “Estacado Meteorite” contains a part of the meteorite it is named after.

The latest issue of the successful „Meteorite Impacts“ series featuring a small piece of the Erfoud Meteorite represents a new dimension in minting technology. As a matter of fact, CIT Coin Invest had to develop a suitable packaging due to the crater’s sculptural depth.

Just in time for the 150th Anniversary of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mint has created a truly out-of-this-world collectible by adding a genuine meteorite fragment to limited edition silver coins.

A real meteorite fragment is embedded in each of the “Chergach Meteorite” coins, designed by CIT for the Cook Islands. The combination of several complex minting technologies and a special finish generates a surface that looks like the impact site in the Sahara desert.

On December 20, 2008, at 10:37 pm local time, a meteorite hit the earth north of Tamdakht in Morocco. For the Cook Islands, Coin Invest Trust has designed the “Tamdakht Meteorite Strike”, a coin whose intentional overstrike lets the surface appear like a crater.

To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of its meteorite coins, Coin Invest Trust has come up with something very special: About 15 million years ago, a meteorite hit the Danube area. In the process, Moldavite, a natural glass, was formed. The 10th edition in the meteorite series incorporates this rare material.

On the morning of February 15, 2013, a meteorite hit the earth in the Ural Mountains. The enormous celestial body caused considerable damage to the people around the city of Chelyabinsk. Now, a unique coin allows the viewer to relive this dramatic event.

When a meteorite went down in Russia earlier in 2013, for the very first time a large number of persons were hurt during such an event. Now particles of the meteorite are included in seven gold medals at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.

The US commemorative coin dedicated to the moon landing 50 years ago is the Coin of the Year 2021. The 38th annual awards programme of the COTY Award honours 2019-dated coins in different categories. Find the complete list of winners here!

“Coin Constellation” is the only international coin contest held in Russia. In 2020, 26 participants from 17 countries presented their coins. Here are the winners.