Tamdakht Meteorite Strike
Presented by
Coin Invest Trust (Lichtenstein)
Production quality
Antique-finish. Small fragment of the real meteorite rests on the coin surface.
Designer
Coin Invest Trust (Lichtenstein)
Producer
B.H. Mayer (Germany)
Description of obverse and reverse
Obverse: Cook Islands with the intensionally strucked hole.
Reverse: Showing the impact of the meteorite, in Morocco in an impressive way with unique crater cracks on each coin.
A brief annotation
The Tamdakht meteorite fell near Ouarzazate, Morocco on 2008-12-20 producing a strewn field of approximately 25 by 2 kilometres and two small impact craters, one of about 1.1 metres diameter and 70 centimetres depth. The meteorite is named after a village close to the fall.