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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2988351, member: 39&quot;]You have your own mint? Would not mind learning more about that. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Hope that</p><p>Seattlite86 does not mind if I add a few photos ...</p><p><br /></p><p>This year&#039;s Guest of Honor was the Royal Dutch Mint (KNM); their booth had a screw press.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]736612[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>2018 is also the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx&#039;s birth, and since no coin was or will be issued this year (we had one in 1983, for the 100th anniversary of his death), the Berlin Mint made a few silver medals commemorating the occasion. They come in various sizes; the most common one is the 1 oz piece, but they also showed this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can&#039;t read the price tag in the lower right corner? Hint: What you are looking at is 2,000 ounces of silver. The mint rep at the booth told us that they got the blank and then worked on the piece (mintage: 1) for about three weeks. So €75,000 is not much, I think. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]736613[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Berlin Mint would also let you mint your own medal. Ah well, Seattlite86 already posted an image of how this was done. Timid or weak visitors could also ask a mint rep to do the minting. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]736615[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and ... back to the Guest of Honor, if you signed up and left your name and address at the KNM booth, you would get a freshly made stroopwafel. Those (usually made/sold by street vendors in NL) are much better than what you buy at a supermarket, hehe.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]736617[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The man happily &quot;posed&quot; when I asked whether I could take a photo. Unfortunately he moved a little too fast for my poor phone camera. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> At the neighboring Austrian Mint booth, a big cow (stuffed) welcomed the visitors. But they also gave out free copies of Ursula Kampmann&#039;s book about the Philharmonics bullion coin ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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