2025 Austria Cupro-Nickel €3 Marine Life (Firefly Squid)

When illuminated with ultraviolet light, however, its secret is revealed as you come face to face with yet another captivating sea creature – in this case the firefly squid.

Coin Highlights:

• Cupro-nickel composition.
• Individual coins are packaged in protective packaging.
• Mintage of 65,000 coins.
• Obverse: All 12 of the magical sea creatures in the Luminous Marine Life series are shown in silhouette on the coin’s obverse. Air bubbles up between them and a tail fin disappears beneath the waves to the right.
• Reverse: On the coin’s reverse, a wide band, reminiscent of an old-fashioned porthole frames an aquatic scene that, while apparently black and empty in normal light, is seen to feature several luminescent squid once the coin is illuminated with ultraviolet light. The squid appear in shimmering blue and purple tones, whereas the navigation element on the left appears green.
• Guaranteed by the Austrian Mint.

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It may be tiny but the firefly squid certainly knows how to draw attention to itself. A bioluminescent organism, the squid has tiny, light-producing organs known as photophores all over its mantle, head, arms and tentacles and can create an impressive spectacle of light when emitting a blue glow en masse. Every year from March to May, the waters off the coast of Japan's Toyama Bay glow a magical blue colour as, despite spending most of their lives in deeper water, the squid come close to the shore to lay their eggs.

Whether tiny or huge, all cephalopods, including the firefly squid, have roughly the same body structure. The firefly squid has ten arms, two of which are elongated and serve as tentacles that hang directly from the head. The squids remaining eight arms are covered with suction cups and are used to guide the squid’s prey to its mouth, while the tentacles are mainly used to catch the prey in the first place. The fact that the firefly squid can move very quickly by sucking in water then expelling it, a process that catapults them forwards, helps them in their predatorial activities.

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