Germany's New €5 Coin

few hours after they released them ,they where sold out.
15 euro for a coin and 77 euro's for a set
tryed to get a set but was to late

https://www.deutsche-sammlermuenzen...uenzen/2016/

@spence:
Yes, the design is the same for all five mints. The only difference is the mint mark and the colour (shade) of the blue polymer ring. As I said earlier each mint has it's own shade. If you put the five different coins together you can easily see the difference.
It will be interesting to see how coin catalogues will handle this situation.

This €5 coin is NCLT which means this coin is legal tender in Germany only. Legal tender in the entire Eurozone are only 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c and 1 & 2 Euro coins.
Some folks (mostly those who don't usually care about coins) got the wrong idea (thanks to inacurate media reports) here in Germany that this coin is a new denomination for circulation. It's not.

Starting April 14th, one could get one coin, and one coin only, at offices of the Bundesbank in a ''Five Euro for Five Euro'' exchange. There were long lines. People waited sometimes up to an hour to get one coin.
Some commercial banks also had the coin. I got the above coin at a local bank. They were sold out very quickly. The branch were I got it had 100 of these coins which were sold within 60 minutes. I think, that shows the hype around this coin.

I was never into this kind of coins, but this one seems to mimick the very well perceived Austrian "Cosmology" piece. I think most of the German commemorative pieces are quite boring because of the uniform eagle, which is present on all of them. The Austrian piece looks much better.