Articles – Cosmos Of Collectibles

What to Keep in Mind When Buying Coins Online

Is there something better than browsing the internet for great bargains that you can add to your collection? After all, Covid-19 still makes us spend most of our weekends at home. And hoarding money in a bank account hasn’t made profits for quite some time now. So why don’t you combine the pleasant with the useful and invest in your own coin collection? We explain what to keep in mind when buying coins online. Continue reading →

Numismatic Issues Concerning Health, Medicine and Women in Times of Covid, Part 1: Nursing and Medical Assistance

Over the course of the pandemic, health care professionals have attracted increased media attention. Gabriele Sturm examined the question of how women in health care professions were depicted on coins in the past, and how they are represented today. Continue reading →

What It Takes to Create the Perfect Gold Blank

Very few people who buy a Vienna Philharmonic as an investment think about how much know-how goes into creating the perfect gold blank. They blindly trust that weight and fineness of their bullion coin are exactly as specified. And they can perfectly do so. The Austrian Mint has decades of experience in producing gold blanks – which is one of the reasons why commemorative and bullion coins of about 60 nations are made with gold blanks from the Austrian Mint. Continue reading →

A Matter of Perspective: Latent Images on Coins

There is hardly another modern minting technique that spread as quicky as latent images. There is a good reason for it. We explain what a latent image is, how it works and how it found its way onto coins. Continue reading →

Where US Bullion Coins Are Made – The West Point Mint

The West Point Mint is the US mint with the shortest history as the institution was only founded in 1988. And yet, the mint has a very important task: this is where US bullion coins are produced. Continue reading →

A Bullion Coin from Germany: The Somalia Elephant

Every coin has a history. And that history does not come out of nowhere, it is a reflection of its time. A typical example for this is the Somalia Elephant, a bullion coin from Germany that is minted every year featuring a new motif by the Bavarian State Mint on the initiative of Emporium Hamburg. Continue reading →

How an Assay Office Became a Large-Scale Producer – The Denver Mint

The US Mint in Denver started off as a small assay office during a gold rush – today it supplies the entire western part of the US with circulation coins. Continue reading →

Flat is an Old Hat – Domed Coins

The adventurous market for collector coins regularly comes up with new exciting innovations. Today, we present a technique that even the US Mint, which is considered conservative in such matters, has taken up after only a few years: domed coins. Continue reading →

Born in the Gold Rush – The San Francisco Mint

The history of the San Francisco Mint began with the great California Gold Rush. After an eventful history, this US mint is now responsible for particularly sophisticated issues. Continue reading →

What to Keep in Mind When Buying Gold – The Ten Commandments of Reasonable Gold Investment

Many consider gold to be a crisis-proof investment, which is why it has been extremely popular not just since Covid. Nevertheless, you can still make numerous errors when buying gold if you don’t know any better. Therefore we present you the ten commandments of reasonable gold investment. Continue reading →