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5 Dollars Endangered Earth - Blue Marble Planet
| Issuer | Barbados |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Technique | Proof |
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| Reverse description | Three-dimensional spherical surface fashioned to represent the Earth as seen from space, with raised and richly textured gold-plated continental landmasses — prominently featuring Asia, Europe, and Africa — set against a deeply swirled vivid blue enamel field representing the world's oceans. The sculptural relief of the continents incorporates fragments of authentic Chondrite meteorite, lending a distinctly tactile and naturalistic topographic quality to the surface. No legends or inscriptions appear on this face of the sphere. |
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The "Blue Marble" photograph — taken by the Apollo 17 crew on December 7, 1972 — became one of the most reproduced images in history and is widely credited with accelerating the modern environmental movement. This coin's embedded Chondrite meteorite fragment adds a material dimension that the image itself could only imply: chondrites are among the oldest solid matter in the solar system, typically dating to roughly 4.5 billion years, predating Earth's formation entirely.
Barbados has no domestic mint; these collector issues are produced under license by external minting houses, in this case almost certainly Coin Invest Trust (CIT) of Liechtenstein, which developed the meteorite-inlay technology used here.