I don’t know how many of you in the steemsilvergold community collect or stack this series, but the designs of these coins are tremendous. The coin is the Somalia elephant series which is produced by the Bavarian State Mint, located in Munich, Germany. The obverse designs change yearly and each is a work of art.
Here is a little background on the series. This series began in 2004 with a mintage of only 5,000 coins. That mintage number was held through 2008, but in 2009 went to 130,00 coins which was a huge jump from 5,000. In 2010 for some reason there were some coins struck with 2010 on the reverse but with the same obverse as the 2009. These coins are difficult to find and there is no known mintage on them. They also released a colorized version of each coin which are the coins i am displaying on this post. From 2004-2008 there were only 500 coins colorized. That number increased to 1,000 coins in 2009-2015. Since 2015 there have not been an mintage numbers posted for these.
This is the 2004 colorized Somalia elephant coin, which happens to be my favorite colorized one.
This is the 2012 colorized Somalia elephant coin.
This is the 2015 colorized Somalia elephant coin.
This is a 2015 gold gilded version of the Somalia elephant coin.
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