UNC World’s First Titanium Coin 1999 Gibraltar 5 Pounds Millennium 1st Day Cover

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Do you like to collect numismatic legal tender
"firsts"
?
See my eBay store or auction list for other world coin and paper money firsts, such as the world's first titanium coin, world's first mint-colored coin,
world's first mint-colored SILVER coin,
world's first 5 ounce silver coin, world's first modern ringed bimetallic coin,
world's first modern ringed TRImetallic coin,
and world's first polymer plastic banknote....
UNC World’s First Titanium Coin 1999 Gibraltar 5 Pounds Millennium 2000 Y2K 1st Day Cover PNC (Philatelic Numismatic Cover) Mintage=25K
USA shipping only.
Own a part of world coin history!
This is the World’s 1
st
Titanium
Legal Tender Coin, and it was quite a feat when issued because titanium is not an easy metal to work with, numismatically. More than a few other nations have now minted titanium coins but this was the first one, a millennium issue from Gibraltar dated 1999. It has a lovely silvery-white color and weighs only 10 grams, incredibly light and strong.
Only 25 thousand of these beauties were made
. Just gorgeous! Titanium is incredibly strong but also a very lightweight metal.
Gibraltar made three identical versions of this coin in silver, titanium, and virenium (an alloy containing metals like nickel, copper, and zinc). It can be difficult to tell them apart unless you weigh them. The titanium version is the lightest of the three at 10 grams.
This special and unique coin has both intrinsic value and collectible value.
Proof or uncirculated? The COA that came with the encased coin from the mint states that all 25,000 of these titanium coins were struck with "proof quality." However, the Standard Catalog of World Coins (2006, Krause) says that only the silver version was struck in proof. I tend to think that the mint that made the coin is correct but I will let the buyer decide if this coin is uncirculated or proof.
This proof or brilliant uncirculated coin comes protected behind clear acrylic in a 1st Day Cover with photocopy of COA (Certificate of Authenticity) and photocopy of detailed information about the 1st Day Cover and the coin's design elements.
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