CERTIFIED BY NGC PROOF 69 ULTRA CAMEO. ONLY 2,500 MINTED. OBV: BUST OF ELIZABETH II RIGHT WEARING TIARA; DENOMINATION BENEATH. REV: 3 METEORITES FALLING TO EARTH LOWER RIGHT, WITH LARGEST ONE CENTER HAVING A SQUARE CONTAINING AN ORIGINAL PIECE FROM THE ACTUAL METEORITE; PARTIAL VIEW OF EARTH IN BACKGROUND WITH EUROPE SHOWING; LEGEND UPPER LEFT EDGE, METEORITE FALL 1868; SMALL DATE AT BOTTOM. THE HISTORIC PUTULSK METEORITE SHOWER WAS THE LARGEST, WITH THE LARGEST NUMBER OF PIECES, ON RECORD. AN ESTIMATED BETWEEN 68,000 AND 100,000 SMALL STONES, KNOWN AS PUTULSK PEAS, FELL WITH AN OVERALL COLLECTIVE WEIGHT OF 8,863 KILOGRAMS. PEOPLE WITNESSED A LARGE FIREBALL IN THE SKY, FOLLOWED BY SEVERAL DETONATIONS, AND A LARGE AMOUNT OF DEBRIS FRAGMENTS FALLING ON ICE, LAND, AND HOUSES, ON AN AREA OF ABOUT 78 SQUARE MILES, 37 MILES NORTHEAST OF WARSAW. THE PUTULSK METEORITE PIECE EMBEDDED IN THE COIN REVERSE IS MADE OF CHONDRITE-H5, A BRECCIATED STONE, WHICH WAS FORMED WHEN VARIOUS DUSTS, SMALL GRANULES, AND PARTICLES ACCRETED TO FORM PRIMITIVE ASTEROIDS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. THIS TYPE OF METEORITE PROVIDES IMPORTANT CLUES AS TO THE ORIGIN AND AGE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, THE SYNTHESIS OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, THE PRESENCE OF WATER ON EARTH, AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. COIN CONTAINS 25 GRAMS OF 925 SILVER. (0.7436 OZ ASW). COIN IS ALSO PARTIALLY PLATED WITH PALLADIUM AND HAS AN ORIGINAL EMBEDDED FRAGMENT OF PATULSK METEORITE. COIN IS 38.61 MM IN DIAMETER. ONLY 2,500 MINTED! All emails sent during those hours will be answered same day. Included in the item price or. We cannot declare any package as a “gift”. The item “2008 SILVER COOK ISLANDS 1868 METEORITE FALL PULTUSK $5 COIN NGC PROOF 69 UC” is in sale since Tuesday, September 20, 2016. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ World\Australia & Oceania\South Pacific”. The seller is “rarecoincollector” and is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Year: 2008
• Certification: NGC
• Certification Number: 2698636-004
• Grade: PR 69
• Composition: Silver