OSMIUM, an investment metal with great potential
- March 30, 2022
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- Pierre
OSMIUM is a metal that has recently been introduced to the investment metal market. According to Virginie GRONDIN, the director of the OSMIUM Institute FRANCE, this metal is the eighth precious metal. It joins gold, silver, rodhium and irridium.
OSMIUM comes from the transformation of platinum. The process to obtain OSMIUM consists of 160 different operations. At the end of the transformation process, the metal is obtained in a crystalline form. In its raw state, OSMIUM is indeed a poison for...
2022 €20 coin “black hole” from Austrian Mint
- March 29, 2022
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- Pierre
Austrian Mint will issue a concave on one side and convex on the other, The “Black Hole” coin illustrates the funnel shape of these regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape from them. One way of envisaging a black hole is as a vortex that draws in everything in its immediate proximity. Once beyond the point of no return – known as the ‘event horizon’ – the ‘singularity’ awaits at the centre. Stephen Hawking...
2022 Royal Mint James the Ist gold coins restrikes
- March 28, 2022
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- Pierre
The Royal Mint has today revealed the second coin in the British Monarchs series with a design dedicated to James I – the Scottish king James VI who succeeded Elizabeth I to become king of England.
The British Monarchs range will feature 21 coins over five years and will span four Royal Houses – Tudor; Stuart; Hanover; Saxe-Coburg, Gotha, and Windsor – remastering iconic designs in high definition for the first time thanks to the latest technology and minting...
Austrian Silver-Nobium 2022 coin: “James WEBB” Telescope
- March 23, 2022
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- Pierre
The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful, and most complex space telescope ever built and launched into space, is designed to help us find answers about the possible existence of extra-terrestrial life. The telescope’s improved wavelength coverage and greater sensitivity than its predecessor, the Hubble, will allow the Webb to observe forming stars and galaxies. This will fundamentally change our understanding of the universe.
Launched into space on December 25, 2021, Webb has been successfully deployed to its operational...
Replacement banknotes of the Bundesbank’s secret bunker
- March 20, 2022
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- Pierre
The town of Cochem in Germany was for several decades the official home of the German central bank, the “BUBA” (Deutsche Bundesbank), which was supposed to be used for the training and rest of its executives. The reality was quite different, since this establishment was in fact the place where a series of replacement banknotes, denominated in marks, was stored. This mission was carried out by this establishment over a period from 1964 to 1988. This was the BBK II...
2022 new Britannia commemorative coins, from Royal Mint
- March 08, 2022
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- Pierre
To celebrate International Women’s Day, The Royal Mint has unveiled a new depiction of Britannia, one of Britain’s oldest and most enduring feminine icons, on a collectable UK coin. The new design is inspired by Gustav Klimt’s classic 1905 painting “The Three ages of Woman” and features Britannia moving from girlhood to maturity. It is the first time that Britannia has appeared three times on one UK coin, and champions women of all ages as equal. It was created...