Neat American coin by the coin artist Vanelle. The coin represents a leaf of the Gingko Biloba tree. The tree is common in China and Japan, and the Chinese characters on the front is the name of the tree in both Chinese and Japanese. Very pretty green transparent color on the front, which shows the structure of the leaf through it. The back is without color.

Ginkgo is a unique tree species, with no close living relatives. It is the best-known example of a living fossil, because it is the only species remaining of a genus which lived in the time of the dinosaurs. Some fossils relating to the modern Ginkgo date back 270 million years! An individual tree may live as long as 3,000 years.

Size: 1.75" = 44 mm, thickness 4.0 mm. Trackable at geocaching.com with own icon.