In 2022 the Turkish State Mint minted a non-circulation set of solar system themed, 1 Kuruş coins made of 1.55 grams of aluminum each.
OK I need to just get this out of the way first. When I searched for "Uranus facts", this is one of the results xD
uhhhh, no thanks ;)
Alright, now that that is out of the way, there are some really cool facts about this planet.
It was the first planet found through a telescope. Though it seems Uranus had been observed on many previous occasions, and possibly as far back as 128 BC. On these previous observation it was usually mistaken for a star or comet though.
On March 13, 1781, Sir William Herschel observed Uranus from the garden of his house with a homemade 6.2-inch reflecting telescope and initially reported it as a comet. There is a long history on naming Uranus as consensus on the name was not reached until almost 70 years after the planet's discovery. I won't retell it here but if you want to really nerd out on some astronomy stuff check this out.
One last fact about the name is that
If you want to check out a cool spherical silver coin of Uranus, this one is interesting.
