Downies Collectables (Australia)

100 dollars

28,34 g

38,6 mm

Gold 999,9°

75 pcs

Digital Colour Print

Blake Manners

B.H. Mayer (Germany)

Reverse: Depicted is wreckage of a UFO crashed in a desert and an alien, with a background of galaxies in digital colour. Incused letting inscription: "ROSWELL NEW MEXICO 1947".

Obverse: Ian Rank-Broadley’s mature portrait of Queen Elizabeth is central to the coin. Surrounded by a flat rim are inscriptions : "ELIZABETH II", "NIUE 2022" , "100 DOLLARS" and "1OZ 9999 GOLD"

The 2022 $100 Roswell 1oz Gold Proof Coin commemorates the 75th anniversary of the 1947 ‘Roswell incident’ in New Mexico. In July 1947, a US Army Air Base in Roswell, New Mexico, issued a statement saying that it had found the wreckage of a ‘flying saucer’. A few days later the base withdrew the story, claiming that the debris was from a weather balloon. A detailed alien dominates the flan, with a stark desert lurking in the background, complete with a crashed spacecraft and hues of galaxies that are also reflected in the alien's eyes!