Cook Islands – 2014 – 5 Dollar – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (including box) (PROOF)

Description

Issue date end of September 2014. Delivery after issue date.

Metal: Silver .925
Weight: 1 oz
Size: 50 mm
Quality: PROOF
Mintage: 450 pcs

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born on May 24th, 1686 in Gdansk. He was a Prussian physicist and the inventor of measuring instruments.

Fahrenheit was the first scientist who succeeded in creating a calibrated thermometer. It was this calibration which allowed the serial production of thermometers. The temperature unit «degrees Fahrenheit» was named after him.

On September 16th, 1736 the scientist died at the age of only fifty.