Mint of Poland received 2 awards: The most technologically advanced coin with no weight limitation - Fortuna Redux Niue Island & the most technologically advanced silver coin of a weight under 5 ounces - Year of the Horse Belarus
Why do they still name this a coin, it's more like a cilinder / bar. I find the idea abit ridiculous. It's like an RCM polar bear / fox 1.5 ouncer but driven to the extreme. Some don't like Philharmonikers due to their smaller diameter and "fat" thickness, especially due to the absence of reeds. This goes beyond fat. I prefer a thousand times more X coins of normal thickness. And if it has to be a bigger object, a kilocoin is also nice, well that they shape the silver in some true 3D object, abit like a space ship or planet/moon/asteroid, and stamp or put design elements on its surface. I also don't like these, in any aspect, not just aboves. Look at those horses, they are like drawn by someone that doesn't know how to do a curve. Where's the thumbsdown smiley!
yes, horses look like drawn by kid but these awards are not for the best design but most technologically advanced coins
Imagine in some future. You put them for sale. Arguments: - most technological advanced coin of 2014 - ehm, that were the arguments folks.
btw since I recently ordered a few Cook Islands First Love coins, I decided to not complain about drawings by kids.
Just looked up the Fortuna Redux coin on ebay. There was a sale on August 2 for $370 from an Australian seller. Will start hunting on ebay looks like it is possible to pick one up at a good price at the moment.
@ Pirocco, the reason it IS a coin is because it has a monetary value minted on it. Whether you like it or not, doesn't matter....it is a coin. Personally, I would not buy either of those coins but me not liking them doesn't make them not coins. Some people apparently love these coins...I am not one of those people. If I am looking to buy dimensional precious metals coins, I'd much rather shoot for this exquisite set (these are coins as well) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8-9J4o4vVg .
Well in my region of the world a coin is a coin, regardless what is on it excluding nothing, purely based on the disc shape. There is no separate word for non legal tender. It's still 'coin', based on the disc shape. And this is illustrated by the word they use for a bar with a legal tender value on it: "coinbar". Dealers do that to make their customers clear that it's a bar, otherwise without pics they would assume it's a disc shape.
