Five Dollars Silver 2018 Shades of Nature - Sungazer Lizard, Coin from Cook Islands - detailed information

This coin was issued in Cook Islands.

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The Shades of Nature series launched in 2014 with the amazing Honey Bee. A silver critter on a gilded background have become the trademark of this series portraying fascinating smaller creatures. Key to the series is an exquisite micro-minting surface-finish that accentuates and emphasizes even the tiniest details in the wing of a bee, the veins on a leaf or the scales on a fish. Starting with the 2016 issue, the coins are produced with smartminting© which, added to the precision laser engraving, results in a hitherto unknown interplay of finesse and high relief.

Sungazer Lizard – CIT Coin Invest AG
The Mint says about this coin:

Shades of Nature is up to its fifth release with the sungazer or giant girdled lizard. Named after the iconic dragon Smaug of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the sungazer is native to South Africa. The coin is an archetypal Shades of Nature issue, with a gilded proof field and an astonishingly detailed sungazer struck in smartminting© high relief. The scales are treated with a micro-minting surface-finish to bring out the incomparable shine and radiance not found on ordinary strikes. more
CIT Item ID: 28387
Country: Cook Islands (the)
Date of issue: 2018
Denomination: 5 Dollars
Material: Silver .999
Quality: Proof
Mintage: 2000
Technique: smartminting®