Minted from Rhine gold mined in southern Alsace, these yield mintings, at 1/4 and 1 ounce, deal with the meteorite impact near Ensisheim on 7 October 1492.
Av: a section of our planetary system, below the sun, closely followed by Mercury and Venus, exactly in the centre the spherically deepened globe of the earth on its orbit,outside that of Mars. After a collision, the Ensisheim meteor detaches itself from the
asteroid belt, leaves its plane of rotation and hits the Earth after a long interplanetary journey in 1492.
Rv: >LA METEORITE D'ENSISHEIM< hits the centre. Readable on its tail >7 XI 1492<,>2022<. Hit by the impact and split by a crack is a disc of the earth _oating between the sun and the crescent moon; according to the common idea of worldly dimensionsat that time.
Visible on the left is the fortibed town of Ensisheim, then part of the Austrian-Habsburg territory, on the right the meanders of the Rhine, flowing to the north.
https://www.victor-huster.de/Meteorit von Ensisheim/