Silverpornsaturday - Lettland 5 Euro Silber Münze 2014 Polierte Platte - Proof
Happy Saturday my amazing peeps 🥰
There is a silver coin that I had my eyes on for a while, but been a
little 🤔 buy? 🤔Not buy?
That is the question...
Untill today when I got PROOF
Se what I did there?
A joke 😁 LMAO
What I'm trying to say is that BUY won and here is the PROOF 😜 Buwahahaha
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Lettland 5 Euro Silber Münze 2014 Polierte Platte - Proof
Face value: 5 euro
Weight: 22.00 g;
Diameter: 35.00 mm
Metal: silver of .925 fineness;
Quality: proof
Mintage: 10.000
Struck in 2014 by Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt
I absolutly LOOVE this one and the details are just incredleble 😍
Low Mintage and Proof...
My favorite things.
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Obverse
A theme from the title page
of the first edition of the
"Book of High Wisdom on the World and Nature" (1774) by Gotthard Friedrich Stender (1714–1796) is a central motif: a pastor is showing a boy how full of wonders this world is.
At the top on the left, there are
semi-circled inscriptions 2014
and LATVIJA.
Reverse
The reverse of the coin features the progressive idea of the world, the heliocentric concept of the universe. The image comprises the inscriptions "G. F. Stender" and "Latwis". Above it, there are semi-circled inscriptions VECAIS STENDERS on the left and "5 euro" slightly on the right.
Edge
The inscriptions LATVIJAS REPUBLIKA and LATVIJAS BANKA, separated by rhombic dots.
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History behind the coin!
The UNESCO events calendar for 2014 includes, among others, the 300th anniversary of the Latvian writer, linguist and thinker Gotthard Friedrich Stender (1714–1796), thus celebrating his fundamental contribution in the area of culture, education and science, including inter-cultural dialogue.
G. F. Stender (nicknamed Vecais Stenders, Old Stenders) is an outstanding representative of the 18th century Enlightenment. He was a German born in the pastoral estate of Laši (now Eglaine), Duchy of Courland and Semigallia. He studied philosophy and theology at Universities of Jena and Halle and served both as a pastor and as an inventor (he made globes for the royal court of Denmark; provided a method for determining the geographical longitude at sea, and even constructed a primitive washing machine). In 1765, he returned to his native land and spent the last thirty years of his life to enlighten and educate the Latvian serfs.
Old Stenders is considered the founder of Latvian secular literature: he wrote fairy-tales, fables, short stories and popular songs; he compiled ABCs in Latvian and performed tasks essential for the formation of a cultural nation: writing a grammar of the Latvian language and putting together a Latvian–German and German–Latvian dictionary.
Old Stenders' most outstanding work is his "Book of High Wisdom on the World and Nature" (1774), in fact, the first peasant encyclopaedia in Europe. There, Old Stenders explains natural phenomena and the basic principles of physics and astronomy, including rotating of the Earth around its axis and around the Sun, and gives basic insights into issues related to meteorology, zoology, botany, chemistry and geography as well as tells his readers about mountains and deserts, earthquakes and volcanoes, seas and rivers.
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This truly is a favorite and I love to explore coins from all over the world and this is my first from Lettland 😉
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So who knows what country my
next silver Will be from 😁 lol
Well next post will be all 🐲🐉 dragons as I got my new dragon
silver bar yesterday.
But till then...
Silver makes me...
smile,
bubbly,
Hot 🔥 😜 lol
STACK ON PEOPLE!!
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When I read the title I was like... what language is my twin speaking 😜
but then I figured it was all the coin's name... or was it? 🤔
You choose your coins very well 😉
I have become a language genius over night
😂 Hahahaha
I wish...but I don’t speak as much as my twin does.. He knows many languages.
But I love silver from different countries and this Proof piece just stuck with me so I had to get me one 😉 and I am happy to have it.
Glad you like my taste in silver cause then you might like the silver I Will send you, if you don’t like the ones I send you... Then I come for ya 😂 Hahahaha
hahaha
then I will pretend I don't like them
so you'd come for me 😉😁
Then I come for you 😜 Buwahahaha
HUUUG GLUE 🤗🤗
congrats...
the coin looks so attractive, with a history .
INdeed To buy or not to buy, that is the question.
PS Our Dutch Royal Mint - maker of your coin - went almost bankrupt minting circulation money for Chili some years ago.
Have some !BEER
Nice one saff
Very nice my stacking Sista, I love the reverse of the Renaissance style Sun dial. I Enjoy the depictions of old inventions, mad looking siege machines, crazy flying machines that don't really fly, by old thinking guys like Leonardo Da Vinci , Nicolas Copernicus and Galileo .
Keep on stacking @saffisara
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I can see why you love that coin. It is beautiful! Keep collecting those awesome designs, @saffisara, and stack on!
Have a lovely weekend, sweet friend, and take care 🥰🌺🤙
Just beautiful @saffisara, and a boxed set as well so nice! I love it when they do the edge lettering stamping first quality all the way! Stack on my friend!
That is a beautiful coin, and you are right, the details are awesome! I like silver that has interesting obverse and reverse sides. History is also a cool thing about a lot of these. Thanks for sharing, my friend, and have a lovely day!
What a beautiful piece! I like the sun motif, very much! And the story behind this is very cool too! 🙂
Thank you for the engagement on my post. Which has led me to you and yours. I love your passion that you show for collecting silver coins. Is it just coins you collect? And why?. Lovely post and love the footer graphics
The eight point star remind you of anything? 😝
😍 Thealliance star... YES!
I love that you noticed that... Well ofcourse you did. But that was The first thing that hit me as I saw it 😁
All stars baby 😘😘💋