Collector Coin

5 Euro Copper Waggle Dance Coin Unc

  • Special gift coin for all nature lovers
  • Lucky New Year gift
  • Traditional copper face value coin
  • Strictly limited mintage
5.00 €
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Maximum order quantity: 100
Maximum order quantity: 100

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.

Product No. 26335
Date of Issue 8 March 2023
Quality Uncirculated
Series Easter coins
Occasion Easter
Face Value 5 Euro
Diameter 28.50 mm
Coin Design Mag. Helmut Andexlinger, Rebecca Wilding, Herbert Wähner
Alloy Copper Cu 999
Total Weight 8.90 g
Packaging Comes without packaging
Mintage (Uncirculated) 200,000
Mintage (Special Uncirculated) 50,000
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