Austria 5 Euro Copper Uncirculated Coin 2023 - Waggle Dance - Easter Coin

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Austria 5 Euro Copper (.999) Uncirculated Coin 2023 - Waggle Dance - Easter Coin

Sellers Note:
This coin; issued by the Austrian Mint is part of a long running series that comes in both Copper and Silver.
This coin is the Copper version in Uncirculated Quality and is composed of Fine Copper (99.9%).
Although issued as a loose coin they have been encapsulated in a high quality 'Lighthouse Capsule'.
Each coin of the series has a unique obverse with a common reverse design and has a Nonagon shape (9 sides).
Being of a low face value of €5 and not being composed of a precious metal makes these beautifully designed coins a reasonably low cost collection.

Country: Austria
Face Value: 5 Euro
Theme: Waggle Dance
Collection: Easter Coin
Composition: Fine Copper (.999)
Quality: Uncirculated
Year: 2023
Weight: 8.90 g
Mintage: 200,000
Coin Shape: Nonagon
Diameter: 28.50 mm
Edge: Interrupted Reeded
Edge Inscription: None
Packaging: Lighthouse Capsule
Condition: See images
Certificate: No Certificate Issued
Mint: Austrian Mint AG
Designer: Mag. Helmut Andexlinger, Herbert Wähner, Rebecca Wilding

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(Will combine shipping):
* Standard Post (Ireland): €4
* Registered Post (Ireland): €10
* Collection (Bray): Free

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Description:
Why talk when you can dance instead? That’s how bees communicate. Their ‘waggle dance’ is a wonderful phenomenon and one that not only bees themselves benefit from.
Other living creatures, including humans, do so too, because bees are a vital part of our ecosystem: their welfare is our welfare.

In the early 20th century, the unusual behaviour of honeybees piqued the curiosity of behavioural scientist Karl von Frisch (1886–1982), who grew up in Vienna.
He was intrigued by the way the insects sometimes move in circles and perform a figure of-eight ‘waggle dance’. In time, von Frisch discovered that when doing so, bees are in fact ‘speaking’ a dance language to the other members of their hive to show them where they can find pollen and nectar.
Although originally disputed by other scientists, von Frisch’s theory eventually earned him the Nobel Prize in 1973.

The ‘round dance’, in which bees walks in a circle, turn around, then walk the same circle in the opposite direction, tells watching bees that there are flowers with pollen in the immediate vicinity of the hive.
When the food source is further away, the waggle dance tells the watching bees how far it is and in which direction they can find it.
A representation of the waggle dance is shown in the background on the coin’s reverse, behind a bee in flight and above a decorative honeycomb deign.
The obverse of the nine-sided coin shows the coats of arms of all the provinces of Austria.
Not just for nature lovers, whether in copper or silver, Waggle Dance makes for a great spring or Easter gift.