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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JeffsRealm, post: 2531938, member: 81515&quot;]Just a bullion round as other have said. The only thing that would make it valuable over the price of the gold is if someone really wanted the design for something. It not an actual coin. Also no reason it couldn&#039;t be reproduced. So if the originating company still had the dies, they could easily make more at any time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that being said some bullion does go up in sheer collectible value. Coke-Cola silver bullion, some bars sell 5 to 10 times their actual silver value.</p><p><br /></p><p>So to answer your questions:</p><p>1. What was the purpose of minting this piece in the first place?</p><p>To sell gold bullion. Same reason any of the rounds were produced. You can go buy 5 oz gold rounds today.</p><p>2. Why was the mintage only limited to 10?</p><p>Probably not a lot of people interested in buying it or spending that much. Not a lot of normal people buy bullion that size. Perhaps also they went to some of their top customers of gold bullion and made them exclusive offers. Could honestly be one customer that told them he wanted 10 of those in gold. You have enough money you can get your bullion customized into what ever you want. Some of the bullion manufacturers now for a small fee will engrave and personalize bullion for you. Honestly if you had enough cash, unless the original mint did some kind of exclusive deal, you could probably pay them to make you a few.</p><p>3. Where might the surviving examples be located?</p><p>Saudi Arabia, honestly. The are known for buying bullion of this size. They could still be located in Switzerland, secure bank vaults. Another option would be Dubai or Hong Kong. Anywhere someone has several thousand, they just wanted to put into bullion.</p><p>4. What might the value be today?</p><p>Again unless someone wanted that specific design for some reason. 6606.50 USD at the current time I write this.</p><p>5. Would this be an item to have graded?</p><p>No, it is bullion, typically you don&#039;t grade bullion. Some people do, but it is not really needed. It&#039;s not going to be carried around in your pocket or transported. They are going to be sitting somewhere very safe never to be moved. Bullion now days usually comes in some kind of air tight.</p><p>6. Who might have an interest in this piece?</p><p>Saudi Arabia, again they buy weird things like this.</p><p>7. What would be the best platform to sell a piece like this?</p><p>If it is something truly over twice the bullion price. Only 10 made, for people to just sit on something with. It is going to be at private auction invite only. It might come up at a high end coin auction. Possible, but it is not going to be on eBay.</p><p>8. Has anyone heard of this piece?</p><p>Not until now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add, looking into this and googling a bit more. As far as why they did this and limited to 10 pieces. I think they were kind of testing the waters really just to see what would sell. They did a lot of odd denominations of that design in gold during the mid to late 80&#039;s I also seen some on auctions in Europe, old closed auction but didn&#039;t sell anywhere near the price you listed. More the price of gold bullion at the time of selling plus a small premium for the actual design. So unless you run into a collector, collecting the Swiss gold bullion designs, which I am sure there is one out there, they won&#039;t go for that price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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