Silver Ounce 2021 La Ciénega Meteorite, Coin from Cook Islands - detailed information

The Cook Islands, a sovereign state in free association with New Zealand, uses two official legal tender currencies. The New Zealand Dollar circulates in parallel with the local Cook Islands Dollar; at the same time, the government also authorises many legal tender coins in the Cook Islands Dollar currency for collector's purposes. Many of them are in standard bullion sizes, including one ounce of silver - such as this coin.

This is the 17th edition of the award-winning "Meteorite Impacts" collection and it is dedicated to the Ciénega Meteorite discovered by Hugo Lino in 2014.

The Mint says about it:
It was a sunny day when geologist Hugo Lino was prospecting for gold near the abandoned mining community of La Ciénega in Sonora, Mexico on January 30, 2014. He could not believe his eyes when he found a 6.1 kg fusion crusted meteorite. As always and as a signature feature of the series, a real piece of this meteorite is embedded in this coin. But this time in a different and extraordinary way! In a series first, the meteorite is shown going into the edge of the coin as if the coin was liquid silver when the meteorite hit it! If you hold it at just the right angle, you will see the meteorite now being an integral part of the inside of the coin!