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© mickfinn (CC BY-NC)
1 Ounce Silver - Intaglio Mint UFOs over Easter Island
2022 year| Silver (.999) | 31.1035 g | 39 mm |
| Location | United States |
|---|---|
| Period | Federal republic (1776-date) |
| Type | Bullion › Rounds |
| Year | 2022 |
| Composition | Silver (.999) |
| Weight | 31.1035 g |
| Diameter | 39 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Updated | 2024-11-14 |
| Numista | N#345948 |
|---|---|
| Rarity index | 93% |
Reverse
Intaglio Mint logo and details on the weight of coin and the fineness of silver.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
ONE TROY OUNCE
MMXXII
.999 FINE SILVER
INTAGLIO MINT
EST. 2010
Edge
Reeded
Comment
Moai or moʻai are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500.[1][2] Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. Almost all moai have overly large heads, which comprise three-eighths the size of the whole statue. The moai are chiefly the living faces (aringa ora) of deified ancestors (aringa ora ata tepuna).[3] The statues still gazed inland across their clan lands when Europeans first visited the island in 1722, but all of them had fallen by the latter part of the 19th century.[4] The moai were toppled in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, possibly as a result of European contact or internecine tribal wars.[5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai
