2 Euro Discovery of Antarctica

Features

Issuer	Estonia
Period	Republic (1991-date)
Type	Circulating commemorative coin
Year	2020
Value	2 Euro 2 EUR = USD 2.17
Currency	Euro (2011-date)
Composition	Bimetallic: nickel brass clad nickel center in copper-nickel ring
Weight	8.5 g
Diameter	25.75 mm
Thickness	2.2 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 193396
References	KM# 94 Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States. And 5 more volumes.

Commemorative issue

200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica

Obverse

Bellingshausen's sloop-of-war, Vostok, surrounded by the inscriptions ‘Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen’ and ‘ANTARKTIKA 200’, the country name and the date. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
EESTI 2020
ANTARKTIKA
200

Translation:
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Estonia 2020
Antarctica
200

Engravers: Tiiu Pirsko, Mati Veermets

Reverse

A map, next to the face value, shows the European continent without borders.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
2 EURO
LL

Engraver: Luc Luycx

Luc Luycx is the designer of the common side of the euro coins. Luycx is a computer engineer, and medallist living in Dendermonde, Belgium, and has worked for the Royal Belgian Mint for 15 years. He designed the euro coins in 1996.

Edge

"O" and "EESTI" repeated alternately upright and inverted.

Lettering: EESTI O EESTI O

Translation: Estonia Estonia

© Cyrillius

Comments

The discovery is linked to Estonia because one of the first men to see Antarctica in 1820 was Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, a Baltic German seafarer born in Saaremaa, who documented the discovery.

See also

• Explorer
• Map
• Boat or watercraft

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