1 x 1 oz Silbermünze 2$ Niue Islands "Silver Icons of Inspiration - Isaac Newton 2021" -BU-*

1 x 1 Unze (oz) 5$ Niue Islands

"Silver Icons of Inspiration - 3# Isaac Newton 2022"

The third release in this APMEXclusive® series, this iteration features a beautiful design celebrating Sir Isaac Newton. Artwork by famed coin designer Joel Iskowitz pays an elegant tribute to this innovative physicist and mathematician.

Coin Highlights

• Contains 1 oz of .999 fine Silver.
• Limited mintage of 10,000 coins, delivered in an enhanced BU satin finish!
• Individual coins packaged in protective capsules. Multiples of 10 arrive in heat-sealed rolls.
• Obverse: Isaac Newton holding a prism with a beam of light running through it, the 1718 Gold Quarter Guinea, and an apple floating above the book as the celestial orbs are floating in space held in perpetual motion by the forces distilled in the equation which appears on a page of the book.
• Reverse: A triumphant image of a muse with an arm extended toward the sun, the seal of the nation of Niue, $2 face value, and the date.
• Coin designs created by famed coin designer Joel Iskowitz.

2022 Niue 1 oz Silver Icons of Inspiration: Isaac Newton BU
The third release in the popular series of coins celebrating famous Icons of Inspiration features Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most influential among the mathematicians and physicists throughout history. Newton’s works across all facets of science are some of humankind’s most studied and appreciated discoveries.

Some of Newton’s many discoveries, present in the unique design of this 2022 Silver BU coin, include his work with gravity, depicted in the coin design by the floating apple and celestial orbs, the creation of the 1718 Gold Quarter Guinea featured on the coin, and the prism featured with light refracting through it. His interest in optics led him to propose, correctly, that white light is the combination of light including all the colors of the rainbow. This, in turn, made plain the cause of chromatic aberration – inaccurate color reproduction – in the telescopes of the day.

To solve the problem, Newton designed a telescope using mirrors rather than glass lenses, which allowed the new apparatus to focus all the colors on a single point – resulting in a crisper, more accurate image. To this day, reflecting telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope, are the mainstays of astronomy.