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Niue Island $7-2015 Silver Spherical Shape Coin 7 Oz

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What a great looking coin sphere sphere coin!

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IMO.....not a coin. I would how ever like to see what would happen if some one sent one to a TPG
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...seems this isn't the first oddly shaped "coin" they have produced:


"Niue Island Fortuna Redux Mercury Cylinder 6 oz Silver Coin $50 Proof 2013"
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"Niue Island VOLCANO ERTA ALE Silver coin $2 Lava 2 oz Dome Convex Antique finish 2014"
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Do you think they have a roller that presses the design in?
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Quote:
SilverStakerKid wrote:

"Do you think they have a roller that presses the design in?"


found these:



https://firstcoincompany.com/S/niue...l-shape-7-oz

"The spherical coin was minted at 600/ 650 kilonewton on a intermediate product by using a six-partite die"
(1 kilonewton = 224.808943 pounds force)

Niue-Island-$7-2015-Silver-Spherical-Shape-Coin-7-Oz


Die set-up:
Niue-Island-$7-2015-Silver-Spherical-Shape-Coin-7-Oz


Niue-Island-$7-2015-Silver-Spherical-Shape-Coin-7-Oz


http://www.coinworld.com/insights/p...-shape-.html
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