how about this for a coin?

Nice video showing laser technology in action.
Don't be fooled as this laser technology has been in daily use for maybe the past 20 years making all sorts of wonderful artifacts but usually aerospace or even automotive parts. Laser engraving has been used for over 30 years and isn't new. Cannot see why they cannot go from CAD to 3D manufacture missing out the plaster moulding stages.
Looks like a beautiful collectable item but don't benchmark its price solely on its silver content alone.
 
This is a typical offering for First Coin (the Lamborghini of bullion dealers) -- beautiful, exotic, ultra-low mintage and insanely overpriced. I spoke w/ the First Coin guy one time. Told him I was in love with one of his offerings but that the price was WAY beyond my reach and I thought it unrealistic and unreasonable. He encouraged me to make my "best offer" and we could see what might follow. I didn't have a good feeling about that mode of doing business, so I dropped the contact and stayed away after that.

At any rate--about the coin at hand... $749 for the coin = $174 for the silver and $575 for the premium. As said above, this is truly a beautiful collectible item--but with a 330% premium, the price is insane.

$750 sunk into a couple old Engelhard or Perth 10oz poured bars will get you a couple beautiful collectible items that weigh a total of 20oz and which you'll be able to get your money back out of. $750 into this coin gets you 6oz of pretty and I suspect little if any hope of ever getting your money back out of it.

It's pretty but it's not for me, or I suspect for hardly any other ordinary mortals, either. Nonetheless, there'll be 2,500 unnecessarily rich people out there who'll buy this one out because it's pretty and without even batting an eye at the price. Maybe if I win one of those $200 million lotteries in the near future I'll be one of them (ha,ha).
 
I do believe this is the coin CK was talking about on Sunday, won coin of the year in Berlin, can anyone confirm?
 
Just had an afterthought prompted by this 6oz cylindrical "coin." How about a 20oz cylindrical American Silver Eagle or a 25oz cylindrical Canadian Silver Maple Leaf? They'd be the perfect size for one per tube, using the mint tubes presently in use. A monster box would be 25 of the new cylindrical ASEs or 20 of the new CSMs -- each in it's own tube.
 
iceblue said:
I do believe this is the coin CK was talking about on Sunday, won coin of the year in Berlin, can anyone confirm?
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Surprisingly it wasn't even nominated... The Dutch coin with a QR code won
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Source:http://news.coinupdate.com/royal-dutch-mint-takes-top-prize-at-coty-awards-1838/
 
steve.rsa said:
iceblue said:
Wow that should have won Ugliest coin crone of the year.
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Fixed.
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:lol::lol:

Actually remember now the chip technology thingy, yes, but I think CK got a look at one of those cylinder coins.
That hurts my eyes.
 
That video is pretty impressive the amount of work that is put into making the die.

I can see this coin making alot of controversy for the 'coin toss' prior to Sunday football games.
 
Awesome projectile!

Rifling twist rate would be about? :) "Probably smooth bore" :lol:

Black Powder grains?
 
The Fortuna Redux will be displayed right next to my 5oz h/r Koala, whenever it gets here.

25 days and counting...
 
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