Cook Islands 2011 $5 Vatican Art Laocoon Silver Coin

Cook Islands 2011 $5 Vatican Art Laocoon Silver CoinLow mintage limit, only 5,000!! In with capsule +. Gold Gilded with Svarowski Crystal Inserted. This statue group was found in 1506 on the Esquiline Hill in Rome and immediately identified as the Laocoön described by Pliny the Elder as a masterpiece of the sculptors of Rhodes. The story is that during the Trojan War, Laocoön, a priest of Apollo in the city of Troy, warned his fellow Trojans against taking in the wooden horse left by the Greeks outside the city gates. Athena and Poseidon, who were favouring the Greeks, sent