5 Euros Eurasian Lynx

Features

Issuer	Slovakia
Ruling authority	Republic (1993-date)
Type	Non-circulating coins
Year	2022
Value	5 Euros 5 EUR = USD 5.70
Currency	Euro (2009-date)
Composition	Brass (Copper 63%, Zinc 37%)
Weight	19.10 g
Diameter	34 mm
Thickness	2.9 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Issued	23 August 2022
Number	N# 337940
References	KM# 188 Standard Catalog of World Coins (85 volumes).

Commemorative issue

The Eurasian lynx

Series: Fauna and Flora in Slovakia

Obverse

The obverse of this euro collector coin shows a lynx kitten on the left side and an adult lynx on the right side. Below the adult are the mint mark of the Kremnica Mint (Mincovňa Kremnica), consisting of the letters ‘MK’ placed between two dies, and the stylised letters ‘TL’, referring to the obverse designer Tomáš Lamač. The name of the issuing country ‘SLOVENSKO’ and the year of issuance ‘2022’ are inscribed along the upper left edge and part of the upper right edge. Below them is the Slovak coat of arms. The denomination and currency ‘5 EURO’ appear in the lower part of the design, above two lynx paw prints at the bottom edge.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SLOVENSKO 2022
5 EURO
MK
KL

Engraver: Dalibor Schmidt

Designer: Tomáš Lamač

Reverse

On the reverse, filling the left and centre of the design, is a lynx’s head in profile. To the right of the image, on two lines, is the lynx’s scientific name ‘LYNX LYNX’, and below it are the stylised letters ‘LR’, referring to the designer of the reverse side Roman Lugár. Inscribed along the lower right edge is the lynx’s name in Slovak ‘RYS OSTROVID’.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
LYNX LYNX
LR RYS OSTROVID

Engraver: Dalibor Schmidt

Designer: Roman Lugár

Edge

Reeded

Mint

(MK)	Kremnica, Slovakia (1328-date)

Comments

The tiger of our forests’, ‘the phantom’: these are names that have been given to Slovakia’s largest wild cat, the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx). As an adult, the male weighs 24 kg on average and the female around 4 kg less. In the wild, the lynx can live for up to 17 years. The lynx’s particularly typical and unmistakeable features include tufts of hair on its ears, a black-spotted coat, and bobbed tail. It has excellent eyesight (as referenced in the second part of its Slovak name ‘rys ostrovid’) and superb hearing, but a less developed sense of smell. Generally living and hunting individually, the lynx is agile and can jump well and far. The lynx is in fact a very shy animal that never attacks humans. In the past, the lynx was hunted by the nobility for its valuable pelt and its claws were used in folk medicine. It used to be severely persecuted and was almost hunted out of the territory of what is now Slovakia, surviving until today only in small numbers in the central northern part and in the Eastern Carpathians. Since 1999 the lynx has had year-round protected status in Slovakia. As well as being a treasure of the country’s natural heritage, lynxes in Slovakia are also a source population for efforts to strengthen the species’ presence in other European countries.

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Date			Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
2022 MK			40 000							$ 8.00

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Pictures	Sale	Date	Sold price
	Katz Auction 123 Lot 204	27 Apr 2024	USD 6.84 (EUR 6.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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	Katz Auction 88 Lot 1292	28 Jun 2023	USD 18.24 (EUR 16.00) (+ buyer's premium)
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