This coin celebrates the 120th anniversary of the groundbreaking invention of using wireless transmission to control a boat. Serbia has issued the second release in its series of coins commemorating the underappreciated genius of Nikola Tesla. These legal-tender coins are struck in a full ounce of highly-pure 99.99% silver and feature not only the image of the scientific pioneer, but one of his greatest discoveries – the radio-controlled boat he used to demonstrate his invention. The low-lying steal craft was about four feet in length and easily skimmed across a small pool of water in a tour de force that cemented Tesla’s patent for his work. Tesla had hoped that the United States Navy would buy the idea of his remote-controlled boats but was rejected by the Navy Brass on the grounds that they thought the technology was too flimsy for war. Ironically, less than two decades later the German navy used remotely controlled boats loaded with explosives to attack Allied ships during World War I.
Just 50,000 of these coins have been struck.
