Extras on the coins
There are over 200 countries in the World. Probably not all the countries do mint commemorative silver coins but most of them do. If we assume that there are 5 silver coins emitted in one country every year that means at least few hundreds of coins in the World every year! That’s a big competition for minting companies. How to encourage potential buyers either collectors or investors? For investors a great incentive can be very low mintage, anyway it means less coins for sale and lower income for the issuer. Another way to make people buy the coin is to keep the mintage at reasonable level, but to work on the visual look of the coin. Just silver coins without any special extras are becoming not so interesting. Coin designers are working hard to find new ideas of the look of the coin.
1. stones
There is a huge variety on stones which are used while producing commemorative coins: diamonds, opals, ambers are just few of them. Last days Swarovski stones are quite popular. The most famous series with extras are:
Tiffany Art (with stained glass) – Palau
Pearls (with pearl) - Palau
Australian treasures(sapphires, opals, diamonds – series is not finished yet) - Australia
Fairy tales and Festivals and Rites (svarowski stones) - Belarus
2. colored coins
There is a huge variety of colorful coins. The most common series are famous painters. The great success made the coin with Ivan Aivazovsky – famous ships painter from Armenia., which price tripled in very short time. Another very interesting coin is Van Gogh form Niue Island, minted by Warsaw Mint. This coin has won a first place in conference “coins 2008” in category: “original technique” in St. Petersburg.
3. shapes, type of metal
Apart form silver and gold, which are the most popular metals among commemorative coins, sometimes coins are e.g. covered with Palladium. It gives the coin very special black color. This technique was use for example in series: “black beauties”. It consists of 7 coins mint in 2008 in 7 different countries. Some coins do not have w common rounded shape, but rectangle one. Most of the coins with famous painters are made in this shape.
Coins theory
Investing in Coins - general rules
Countries of emission
Extras on the coins
Risk diversification
Rate of return vs risk
Emissions of coins
Fairy tales series - Belarus
Belarusian Festivals and Rites
Van Gogh - Niue Island
Australian treasures series
Famous battles - Tuvalu
Black beauties - palladium coins
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