Description

On 5 February 2016, Parliamentary State Secretary Michael Meister presented the new €5 Planet Earth collector coin at the World Money Fair in Berlin. The coin’s development at the Bavarian Mint and the Leibniz Institute of RWTH Aachen University took nearly ten years to complete. This new coin is not only the first ever €5 coin to be released by Germany, it is also the world’s first coin to be made with a special combination of metal and polymer components.

The transparent blue ring is made of a material that can be worked like metal but is actually plastic. It contains both a color pigment and security features. The joint between the polymer plastic and metal is just as strong as between the two different metals in conventional bi-metallic coins, such as the one- and two-euro coins.

The color of the blue Polymer ring is different for each mint from light blue to a very dark blue.