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Time-Limited Coin Issues

July 30, 2019 by Buy-Gold.Link in Coin Knowledge, Gift Ideas - No Comments

What are time-limited coin issues you may wonder? Please allow me to explain. Whereas most bullion coins are minted according to the current market demand, the total mintage number of numismatic precious metal coins is usually limited to a few thousand or tens of thousands of pieces. Limiting the total mintage of these coins creates ... Continue reading

How to sell your gold coins

July 15, 2019 by Buy-Gold.Link in Precious Metal Investing - No Comments

Even though the gold price went up a bit in recent times, it is definitely not the time yet to sell your gold coins. However, that time may come at some point so investors should have an idea and perhaps even a plan how to eventually sell their gold that they acquired over the years. ... Continue reading

The world’s only unique gold coin?

June 30, 2019 by Buy-Gold.Link in Gold, Rare Coins - No Comments

A few months ago, I wrote an article about a historic British gold coin that I thought at the time to be the world’s rarest gold coin. Only three specimens are known to exist of the British Double Florin which is about as rare as coins can be. A few days ago however, news came ... Continue reading

The world’s only 24k gold watch

June 15, 2019 by Buy-Gold.Link in Gift Ideas, Gold - No Comments

Besides buying gold coins and gold bars, more and more precious metal investors are looking to buy other types of bullion items. Among the Afro-American population in the US, heavy gold necklaces have long been a popular trend (especially in the hip-hop/rap music scene) whereas Indian women like to buy all kinds of expensive gold ... Continue reading

10,000 yen Japanese gold coins

May 31, 2019 by Buy-Gold.Link in Exotic Coins, Gold - No Comments

Most buyers of gold coins are aware of China’s leading position in the precious metal coin market. Not only does China issue a perennial favorite with its Chinese Gold Panda and Chinese Silver Panda coins but it also regularly issues stunning commemorative precious metal coins like its annual editions of the Chinese Lunar coins. On ... Continue reading

The Perth Mint Exhibition

May 15, 2019 by Buy-Gold.Link in Minting Institutions - 1 Comment

For anyone that loves coins, visiting a mint is a special and memorable experience. Industrial tourism has been increasing in popularity for a long time and visitors from all over the world come to see how their favorite car is manufactured or how their favorite beer is brewed. More and more minting institutions have also ... Continue reading

Trimetallic Coins & Bimetallic Coins

April 30, 2019 by Buy-Gold.Link in Exotic Coins, Rare Coins - No Comments

While searching online for a topic for our next blog article, I came across the website of the Worldwide Bi-Metallic Collectors Club (WBCC), the self-proclaimed first Internet Coin Club that was founded all the way back on the 14th of September 1996. It specializes in the collection of bimetallic and even trimetallic coins (including bimetallic ... Continue reading

Somalian Elephant Gold Coins

April 15, 2019 by Buy-Gold.Link in Coin Series, Exotic Coins, Gold - No Comments

As a generalization, one might say that the precious metal coin market is dominated by the government mints of some of the most developed nations in the world like the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and the emerging superpower China. Granted, some mints from developing countries also play a major role like the South ... Continue reading

Ancient Chinese Coins

March 31, 2019 by Buy-Gold.Link in Exotic Coins - 1 Comment

It is not the shape that defines a coin but the authority under which it was minted. If it was minted under the authority of a legitimate government that assigned a legal face value to it, then it is a coin. If it doesn’t have a legal value as currency assigned to it, then it ... Continue reading

Proof Coin Production

Whereas most buyers of gold coins or other precious metal coins prefer to buy brilliant uncirculated coins as they can be bought for prices close to the spot price of the metal, many numismatic collectors prefer to buy proof coins. Coins with a proof finish undoubtedly represent the highest quality level in the production of ... Continue reading

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