Three Ounces Silver 2017 Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, Coin from Cook Islands - detailed information

This coin was issued in Cook Islands.

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Year: 2017. Features 3oz 999 Silver with Swarovski Crystals. Weight (g): 93.3 (3oz troy). A numismatic masterpiece, made of 3 oz of pure silver 999 with 18 authentic Swarovski crystals inlaid in this 55 mm coin, issued by Cook Islands.

From the Masterpieces of Art Series - 'Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus' artist William Turner.

Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is an 1829 oil painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner. It depicts a scene from Homer's Odyssey, showing Odysseus (Ulysses) standing on his ship deriding Polyphemus, one of the cyclopes he encounters and has recently blinded, who is disguised behind one of the mountains on the left side. Additional details include the Trojan Horse, a scene from Virgil's Aeneid, on one of the flags and the horses of Apollo rising above the horizon. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1829. Acquired by the National Gallery in 1856, the painting is on display in room 34.

A numismatic masterpiece, made of 3 oz of pure silver 999 with 18 authentic Swarovski crystals inlaid in this 55 mm coin, issued by Cook Islands.