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Description: Coin is round in shape, with front and back sides - raised rim on. Coin with featuring an original piece of the meteorite.

Seymchan is a pallasite meteorite found in the dry bed of the river Hekandue, a left tributary of river Jasačnaja in the Magadan district, Russia, near the settlement of Seymchan, in June 1967.

The main mass of 272.3 kilograms (600 lb) was found during a survey in June 1967 by geologist F. A. Mednikov. The mass was a triangular-shaped thumbprinted meteorite lying among the stones of the brook bed.

The main mass was turned over to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

The Obverse: to the center portrait of the Queen Elizabeth II. Inscriptions along the rim - ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS, the down – 5 DOLLARS.

The Reverse: to the center colored image rivers and forests of Eastern Siberia in the Russia. The down featuring an original piece of the meteorite. To the top inscriptions - SEYMCHAN METEORITE.