Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
Waarom registreren? Alleen om bots buiten ons catalogus te houden. Uw e-mail blijft privé — we delen het nooit en sturen u niets zonder uw toestemming. Dat garanderen wij u!
½ Dollar Santa Claus Sleigh
| Uitgever | Fiji |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 2021 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Dollar (1969-date) |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Gewicht | Log in om details te zien |
| Diameter | Log in om details te zien |
| Dikte | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Techniek | Log in om details te zien |
| Oriëntatie | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | The central copper-nickel core displays the full Coat of Arms of Fiji, featuring a quartered shield supported by two Fijian warriors in traditional dress, one holding a spear and the other a war club; a British lion passant occupies the chief of the shield, with a sailing vessel, sugarcane, a coconut palm, a dove, and a bunch of bananas in the quarters below. A scroll beneath the shield bears the national motto in Fijian. The copper-nickel outer ring carries the legend 'FIJI 2021' along the upper arc and the denomination 'HALF DOLLAR' along the lower arc, separated from the core by a dark-tinted plastic middle ring. |
|---|---|
| Schrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Schrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Rand | Reeded |
| Muntplaats | Log in om details te zien |
| Oplage | Log in om details te zien |
| Aanvullende informatie |
Fiji has served as a convenient issuing authority for novelty collector pieces since the 1990s, its monetary laws permitting third-party minting arrangements that most sovereign mints would not entertain. This piece is a product of that arrangement — legal tender in name, but designed entirely for the gift and collector market rather than any circulating monetary purpose.
The plastic ring insert is the technical point of interest here: embedding non-metallic components into a coin planchet requires precision tolerancing to prevent delamination, a problem that plagued early trimetallic and bimetallic issues from several European mints in the 1990s.