I have a problem with this coin. EVERY website states that this is a silver clad copper nickel coin of 20 grams weight. I have bought this coin from a coin dealer and my version weights 25.66 grams and it registers as 925 silver on my Sigma PMV. The coin dealer also sold it as a silver coin.
Now the coin dealer can of course be mistaken. But my coin does weight 25.66 gr. and therefore is off by 5.66gr. from every website entry, Does this mean a silver version exists? It's just too much to be just a margin.
Identical in every other way? Diameter, thickness, reeded edge, obverse and reverse details, etc? Frankly, nothing would surprise me coming from this mega coin producing of “special coins” in very small numbers to support their tiny economy Nieu. Perhaps there is a version not documented by anybody to date. Hard to keep up with the sheer numbers of things they put out there and not convinced they care about or competent enough to document everything they throw on the market including a possible silver version of this type. After all, information from governments on specfics about products produced by major world economies and mints is at times difficult to obtain until years later if at all.
Identical in every other way? Diameter, thickness, reeded edge, obverse and reverse details, etc? Frankly, nothing would surprise me coming from this mega coin producing of “special coins” in very small numbers to support their tiny economy Nieu. Perhaps there is a version not documented by anybody to date. Hard to keep up with the sheer numbers of things they put out there and not convinced they care about or competent enough to document everything they throw on the market including a possible silver version of this type. After all, information from governments on specfics about products produced by major world economies and mints is at times difficult to obtain until years later if at all.
Yes, identical in every way. The thickness is not mentioned on Numista. Mine is 2.8mm. True, they are hemorrhaging coins and some are issued in very low quantities. I wonder who keeps up with and collects these. It's virtually impossible. Even Krause Mishler gave up catalogizing them.
I think it must be one of those undocumented variations.
On the positive side perhaps you made a new discovery and yet another entry worthy of the 2013 Nieu line of products. I have seen many much more erroneous claims approved in the Numista catalog. Your information if accurate is as credible as it can be. Why not try to enter your example to the Nieu catalog? Just show the facts as you presented them here. Photos of the weight on a scale, diameter and thickness in a caliper, silver content of 925 on your Sigma PMV etc, etc while spreading knowlege to the worlds catalogs and collectors about something they didnt know they didnt know.. After all, you have the evidence in your possession that something unknown exists.
Status changed to Solved(Desdinova, 12 May 2026, 19:02)
