I was wondering if there are any bi-metal coins that combine gold and silver? Is anyone aware of such coins, say with a silver center and a gold rim.
there are others from singapore, thailand. etc. if you are interested most o the m are pretty cheap on ebay unlike the library of congress
In 1994 a gold & silver bimetallic coin was issued to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Vienna mint.
Yes, there are a few if you are talking about precious metals. The Chinese panda had an extremely short lived gold centered - silver outer ring coins. I can't think of many combination of gold inner and silver outer. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310016382764 Australia had quite a few if I remember right: http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&viewitem=&item=270182242497 http://www.ramint.gov.au/press_releases/Archive/bradman_release.cfmp http://www.perthmint.com.au/catalog...zabeth-golden-jubilee-of-coronation-coin.aspx Some more fanciful coins that I can think of gold inner bi metal coins are these: http://www.nbs.sk/MENA/PMINCE/PM51A.HTM (palladium though) These few are slightly different but with gold inert, http://www.cbr.ru/eng/bank-notes_coins/Base_of_memorable_coins/coins.asp?cat_num=5611-0001 http://www.cbr.ru/eng/bank-notes_coins/Base_of_memorable_coins/coins.asp?cat_num=5615-0001 http://www.cbr.ru/eng/bank-notes_coins/Base_of_memorable_coins/coins.asp?cat_num=5611-0002 http://www.cbr.ru/eng/bank-notes_coins/Base_of_memorable_coins/coins.asp?cat_num=5615-0002
It is a beutiful coin... on my list of coins to buy if I ever win the lottery lol it's second on my list after a high grade St. Gaudens double eagle. It is to date, the only bi-metallic coin the US has ever produced. Also it's the only commemorative coin that US has produced containing platinum, and the only platinum coin the US has ever minted besides the American Platinum Eagles. They should make more... gold/silver actually would be a great idea and make the coin reasonably affordable to more people. Mintage was pretty low on this one (about 27,000 proof, about 7,000 uncirculated)... I think it usually goes for about $1500 in proof these days (gold and platinum are on the rise and the affects the floor on the price of course.) The uncirculated is about double that since mintage of the uncirculated was just over 7000.
i realaly dont have money for more gold coins so although i like your idea i cannot endorse it. IMHO the st gaude's liberty is overrated both the designs the modern and the classical have in high grades bu it grows old. I like the indian and the liberty series better. you can geta proof for about 1k and the unc for about 2.5k on ebay. MHO if i wa sjust collecting for fun i would buy the prrof its more beautiful and use the remaing money to buy 2 st gaudens or some other coins
Well I can only afford about one, maybe 2 gold coins a year lol... (usually bought with my tax refund, why I actually look foreard to doing my taxes lol) and wouldn't mind a silver/gold bi-metallic being one of them. Not all designs appeal to all people of course... I happen to think the Barber series are about the ugliest coins the US has ever produced (yes, I think even the SBA is better, at least her gender is obvious. And it has a very nice reverse at least, not some eagle that looks like it hasn't been eating very well.) A lot of people disagree with me on that I'm sure. Though apparetly some contemporary sources agreed with my assessment lol... why the 1892 wasn't saved in great numbers. Well actually if you count commems the Korean War commem is even uglier... don't know what they were thinking on that one... I'm sure the St. Gaudens isn't everyone's favorite, but I'm sure most people will admit that it's at least really good. Would like to own just one, not going to try to collect several or anything lol... wouldn't even mind it being lightly circulated as long as it doesn't have any major scratches. An AU would be good enough for me if that caused it to drop into the realm of affordability, which it just might. Hoping for a good refund this year lol...
Er that's a gold/silver alloy. What is meant here is two metals being completely separate from each other (the planchet is made of an inner ring of one metal and an outer ring of another.)
Um... because after making such a thing, people would be willing to exchange money for it? I'm not sure I understand what it is you don't understand.
Such 'coins' sound more like jewelry than coin of the realm. The bullion value would be very hard to calculate quickly and the face value would never be a reflection of that bullion. If you want to coin money as jewelry, then go for it but I do not see anyone ever using the stuff as a coin is intended, as an exchange media for goods. If I just wanted to buy pretty things I's spend my money at Tiffanies, not on Vcoins. I know this is off topic, but is a coin really a coin if it is never circulated anywhere (I am not taslking about special grades of circulated coins, but of the coins that never see the street at all? If not, then folk who collect those things are really collecting curiosities or bullion, not coins) Nothing wrong with that, but is it coin collecting?
