2364) "Around the World in 80 Days" - by Jules Verne, Niue Islands: A $5 (Five Dollars - NZD) Coin issued by the Carpathian Mint in coordination with Pela Coins and Silver Coins inspired by Verne's popular book: Year of Coin Release: 2022:
The Carpathian Mint in collaboration with "Pela Coins" and "Silver Coins Europe" has brought out a Silver Coin inspired by Jules Verne's novel, “Around the World in 80 Days”.
The Header/Banner shows the Reverse of the $5 (Five Dollar -NZD) Coin against a background of images of travel - showing a map, "Tour de Monde 80 jours" (an original copy of the book in French - "Around the world in 80 Days"), a ship, a seam engine a hot-air balloon etc.
"Pela Coins" have previously brought out many elegant designs, like the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and space-themed coins, while "Silver Coins Europe" has been credited with "Lucifer" and "Arthur Pendragon" releases.
Carpathian Mint has been tasked with collaborating all future release for both the Groups.
About Jules Gabriel Verne (08.02.1828-24.03.1905):
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the "Voyages Extraordinaires", a series of bestselling adventure novels.
In all, Verne wrote about 60 novels (or "Voyages Extraordinaire") many with plots which are considered to be among the earliest examples of "Steampunk".
Just as he wrote science fiction before the term existed, so too did Verne write "proto-steampunk" more than a century before the term existed.
Verne wrote at a time when there was unprecedented public enthusiasm for science, engineering and exploration.
Technical advances such as the steam locomotive, the telegraph, and electrical power proved to citizens of the late nineteenth century that they lived in an age of wondrous progress and exploration.
Verne was not a scientist or an engineer (his training had been in law), but he was fascinated by technology and this is reflected in such novels as Journey to the Center of the Earth (1863), From the Earth to the Moon (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869), A Floating City (1870), Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) and The Mysterious Island (1874-75).
His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.
In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theatre, opera, music and video games.
Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism.
His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere, where he had often been labelled a writer of genre fiction or children’s books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed.
On 24.03.1905, while ill with chronic diabetes and complications from a stroke which paralysed his right side, Verne died at his home in Amiens.
About "Around the World in 80 Days":
Jules Verne’s seminal classic "Around the World in 80 Days" is more popular today than it was on publication in 1872, one and a half centuries ago.
Telling the story of Phileas Fogg’s attempt to win a wager placed in London’s Reform Club, he undertakes to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days.
The book is packed with adventures, explaining its enduring popularity.
Accompanied by Passepartout, who is being pursued by Scotland Yard, he makes the journey with just hours to spare.
THE ITINERARY OF PHILEAS FOGG:
LONDON TO SUEZ, EGYPT
Train to Brindisi, Italy, followed by the steamer ‘Mongolia’ to Egypt - 7 DAYS
SUEZ TO BOMBAY, INDIA
The steamer ‘Mongolia’ across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean - 13 DAYS
BOMBAY TO CALCUTTA, INDIA
Train across India - 3 DAYS
CALCUTTA TO HONG KONG
The steamer ‘Rangoon’ across the South China Sea - 13 DAYS
HONG KONG TO YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
The steamer ‘Carnatic’ across the South China Sea, East China Sea, and the Pacific - 6 DAYS
YOKOHAMA TO SAN FRANCISCO, USA
The steamer ‘The General Grant’ across the Pacific Ocean - 22 DAYS
SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK, USA
Train across the United States - 7 DAYS
NEW YORK TO LONDON
The steamer ‘The China’ across the Atlantic Ocean to Liverpool, then train to London - 9 DAYS
The Silver Coin:
The Reverse of the $5 (Five Dollars - NZD) Silver Antique Finish Coin depicts the pair riding atop an elephant in India, which is selectively coloured to highlight the magnificent regalia of the animal.
The Reverse is packed with high-relief detail, and little thoughtful elements showcasing travel.
The Obverse of the $5 (Five Dollars - NZD) Silver Antique Finish Coin showcases the many modes of transport used by Fogg on his journey merged together perfectly into a single scene - a steamer, a steam engine driven train, a horse driven cart, a camel caravan, a hot- air balloon.
The Elizabeth Tower’s clock face marks the finishing time, and the Emblem/Seal of Niue is placed unobtrusively in the design.
The above Information Booklet (IB) gives a brief account of the travels of Phileas Fogg and about the author - Jules Verne:
"Around the World in Eighty Days, travel adventure novel written by French Author Jules Verne (Nantes 1828 - Amiens 1905), published serially in 1872 in Le Temps. This French writer is considered the founder of modern science fiction literature. He predicted with great accuracy in his fantastic stories the appearance of some of the inventions generated by the technological advances of the 20th Century, such as television, helicopters, submarines and space ships.
This particular work tells the story of the umflappable Phileas Fogg's trip around the world accompanied by his emotional valet Passepartout to win a bet. It was the most popular of Verne's Voyages Extraordinaire series of novels.
Phileas Fogg a London gentleman of meticulous and unchanging habits hires as his valet Jean Passepartout, a Frenchman who has had a variety of jobs, including circus performer, but now seeks a tranquil life. After reading in the Daily Telegraph that a new railroad in India has made it theoretically possible to travel around the world in eighty days. Fogg bets his fellow members at the Reform Club that he will make the journey in 80 days or less. The wager for a princely sum of 20,000 Pounds (half his fortune). Leaving that night Fogg and a nonplussed Passepartout board a train bound for Dover and Calais to begin their journey.
Shortly before Fogg's departure, someone resembling him has robbed a bank and Fogg's sudden exit leads Scotland Yard to believe that he was the bank robber. Accordingly a detective Mr. Fix is sent to the Suez, in British ruled Egypt to await the steamer Mongolia on which Fogg and Passepartout are travelling. Fix befriends Passepartout and after learning that they will take a steamer to Bombay, he buys a ticket and joins them. The Mongolia reaches Bombay before the arrival of the arrest warrant, however. During the few hours before their planned departure to Calcutta on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Passepartout visits a Hindu Temple in on Malabar Hill unaware that Christians are forbidden to enter and that shoes are not to be worn inside. He is beaten by enraged priests and barely makes it to the train station on itme.
Sd - Jules Verne".
The specification of the Silver Coin are:
Country of issue: Republic of Niue; Date/Year: 2022; Coin Theme: "Around the World in 80 Days" - a Novel by Jules Verne; Denomination/Face Value: $5 NZD (Niue); Metal Composition: 0.999 Fineness Silver (Ag); Weight: 93.3 grams or 3.0 Oz; Diameter/Size: 60.00 mm; Coin Quality: Antique Finish (AF); Mints: Carpathian Mint in collaboration with Pela Coins & Silver Coins, Europe; Mintage: 500 pieces; Special Modifications: Ultra High Relief, UV Printing; Packaging: Each coin is encapsulated and presented in an elegant Presentation Case; Certificate of Authenticity (COA): Yes.
The Hexagonal Presentation Case, showcasing the Silver coin, together with the Certificate of Authenticity (COA) and the Shipper.
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