€5 · Copernicus 2023 (1 oz silver)
2023 · Central Bank of Malta
Germania Mint produced this Maltese €5 coin in 2023 for the 550th anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus’s birth. Natalia Danysz designed the issue. Copernicus faces the Sun; the opposite side combines a historical solar system with the Central Bank of Malta arms and the mint mark. Colour is applied to this one-ounce silver version.
Technical specifications
- Diameter
- 38.61 mm
- Weight
- 1 troy oz
- Fineness
- 0.9999
- Designer
- Natalia Danysz
- Mint
- Germania Mint
- Composition
- Silver
- Strike quality
- BU
- Surface treatment
- Colouring
- Presentation quantity in source
- 15000 (published edition; final production not independently established)
- Edge
- Unknown / not verified
- Thickness
- Unknown / not verified
- Colour
- Unknown / not verified
- Serial format
- Unknown / not verified
The commemoration recalls Copernicus’s heliocentric model. These partner collector coins form a separate design family from Malta’s 2023 circulation commemorative €2 coin on the same subject.
Dating and classification
Release documented by the mint’s product catalogue and contemporary 2023 publication; exact day not established.
Sources
Checked:
- Germania Mint — 2023 Malta Copernicus 5 Euro 1 oz Silver BU
- Germania Mint — Partner Releases (published family)
- Germania Mint — Copernicus collection, 13 September 2023
- Germania Mint — Acrylic Glass Display, 4 October 2023 (completed Copernicus packaging)