2025 Austria Cupro-Nickel €3 Marine Life Dorid (Sea Slug)
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Add this 2025 Austria Cupro-Nickel €3 Marine Life Nudibranchs Dorid Sea Slug to your cart today!
A perfect example of how nature creates art without even trying, the doridid nudibranch makes a feather boa look dull by comparison. Admired for its eccentric shape and vibrant colors, which transform under ultraviolet light, the shell-less sea slug features on the eleventh coin in the Luminous Marine Life series. The dazzling coloration of many types of nudibranch is believed to serve as a warning signal to predators, which is enhanced by their ability to glow, especially at night, in deep water or in caves and crevices. The human eye cannot perceive this biofluorescence, but many predatory fish can. circular body. An additional safety feature is the pointed, dagger-like spike covered in poisonous skin that sits far back on its tail.
Nudibranchs are not typical hard-shelled mollusks that rely on a shell for protection. Instead, they use potent toxins that make any fish attempting to swallow a nudibranch quickly spit it out. Moreover, nudibranchs can even repurpose the defense mechanisms of the creatures they feed on, such as sea anemones. They harvest the highly venomous stinging cells from the polyps of these flower-like animals and store them for future use. When threatened, they unleash the ‘stolen’ stinging capsules to fend off their attacker.
Nudibranchs are ‘simultaneous hermaphrodites’, meaning that they are both male and female at the same time. This is a significant advantage, as during mating, both partners can fertilise each other. Their egg masses –usually thousands of tiny eggs – resemble colourful flowers or garlands. From these eggs, larvae hatch and drift through the sea as part of the plankton for a short time. During this early stage of life, nudibranchs still have a microscopic shell. It is only when the larvae develop into small, bottom-dwelling snails that they lose their tiny shell entirely.
Austrian Mint Commemorative Coins
APMEX is proud to offer products from the Munze Österreich, or Austrian Mint. With more than 800 years of coin-production experience, the Austrian Mint in Vienna has become world-renowned for coin production and precious metals processing. As a subsidiary of the Austrian Central Bank, the Austrian Mint's foremost task is to produce all of the circulating euro coinage for Austria. The mint also strikes an impressive range of collector coins and medals, along with producing some of the world's best-selling bullion coins. In addition to the popular Philharmonic coins, the Austrian Mint produces many beautiful commemorative coins to honor people, places and events of its history. More than 400 million coins are produced at the Austrian Mint each year.
To celebrate the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the Austrian Mint is embarking on an undersea adventure that will show just how fascinating and colorful the underwater world can be.
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 features a doridid nudibranch in the center. A coral reef and a shoal of small fish can be seen in the background.
- Guaranteed by the Austrian Mint.
Add this 2025 Austria Cupro-Nickel €3 Marine Life Nudibranchs Dorid Sea Slug to your cart today!
A perfect example of how nature creates art without even trying, the doridid nudibranch makes a feather boa look dull by comparison. Admired for its eccentric shape and vibrant colors, which transform under ultraviolet light, the shell-less sea slug features on the eleventh coin in the Luminous Marine Life series. The dazzling coloration of many types of nudibranch is believed to serve as a warning signal to predators, which is enhanced by their ability to glow, especially at night, in deep water or in caves and crevices. The human eye cannot perceive this biofluorescence, but many predatory fish can. circular body. An additional safety feature is the pointed, dagger-like spike covered in poisonous skin that sits far back on its tail.
Nudibranchs are not typical hard-shelled mollusks that rely on a shell for protection. Instead, they use potent toxins that make any fish attempting to swallow a nudibranch quickly spit it out. Moreover, nudibranchs can even repurpose the defense mechanisms of the creatures they feed on, such as sea anemones. They harvest the highly venomous stinging cells from the polyps of these flower-like animals and store them for future use. When threatened, they unleash the ‘stolen’ stinging capsules to fend off their attacker.
Nudibranchs are ‘simultaneous hermaphrodites’, meaning that they are both male and female at the same time. This is a significant advantage, as during mating, both partners can fertilise each other. Their egg masses –usually thousands of tiny eggs – resemble colourful flowers or garlands. From these eggs, larvae hatch and drift through the sea as part of the plankton for a short time. During this early stage of life, nudibranchs still have a microscopic shell. It is only when the larvae develop into small, bottom-dwelling snails that they lose their tiny shell entirely.
Austrian Mint Commemorative Coins
APMEX is proud to offer products from the Munze Österreich, or Austrian Mint. With more than 800 years of coin-production experience, the Austrian Mint in Vienna has become world-renowned for coin production and precious metals processing. As a subsidiary of the Austrian Central Bank, the Austrian Mint's foremost task is to produce all of the circulating euro coinage for Austria. The mint also strikes an impressive range of collector coins and medals, along with producing some of the world's best-selling bullion coins. In addition to the popular Philharmonic coins, the Austrian Mint produces many beautiful commemorative coins to honor people, places and events of its history. More than 400 million coins are produced at the Austrian Mint each year.
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