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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Are you annoyed because Cosmos of Collectibles does not indicate prices? There’s a good reason for it: Prices change all the time, and especially in the field of ancient coins there are too many small aspects regarding style and minting quality that make a great difference in price. That’s why we prefer to show you how to determine the price yourself. So, you want to know what your coin from the Roman Republic is worth? In this article, we’ll explain you how to do that. From the coin to the price in four steps – it couldn’t be any easier. Continue reading →

Only very few countries still have more than one mint. The United States Mint has four active production sites, making it by far the world’s largest mint. The oldest of these sites  is the Philadelphia Mint - which does not even need to be considered together with the other production sites to win the title of the world’s largest mint! Continue reading →