Offering financial investments for the end-of-year holidays seems to be on the rise. But rather than an ETF or a hundredth of Bitcoin, have you thought about collectible coins?
After offering reissues of the Napoleon III in 2023, the Monnaie de Paris continues this year its productions paying tribute to emblematic French coins (“Ors de France”) with a new collection of Louis d’Or. Highlight of this series, released before the holidays… a pure gold coin with a face value of €10,000!
Sold at €10,500, this 2024 vintage Louis d’Or, weighing 100g, was produced in a limited number of only 200 copies. The historical dimension of the collection – which brings up to date the most famous French coin in the world after the Napoleon – the high face value of the coin and its very limited production should ensure it a place of choice among numismatists.
A reinterpretation of the historic Louis d’Or, this exceptional coin takes on the features of the gold denomination created under Louis XIII to compete with Spanish gold denominations already in circulation. Engraved by Jean Warin, the profile of King Louis XIII comes from a 10 Louis coin currently kept in the collections of the Paris Mint
explains the Institution.
On the left of the portrait we find the monograms of Louis XIII as well as the heraldic symbols of royalty. The letter A corresponds to the workshop in which the original currency that served as inspiration for this creation was minted (A= Paris). The reverse of this new collection highlights the three temporal eras to which the three inspirations belong. [de la trilogie de collections Ors de France éditées sur trois ans par la Monnaie de Paris, entre 2023 et 2025].
The collection of new Louis d’Or from the Paris Mint has other more affordable coins, still available, with face values of €5,000 (sold for €5,250, 1,200 copies), €2,500 (still sold at face value, 2,000 copies), and 250€ (same, 15,000 copies). Silver models at €100 and €20 (still sold at face value) complete the collection.
Collectible coins: what you need to know before investing
Collectible coins are the exact opposite of a speculative investment, as a stock portfolio could be for example. To increase in value, these pieces must be kept for 10 years, or even 15 years at least. These are “passion” investments, by definition illiquid, and whose collectible value that they are likely to acquire over time remains difficult to predict.
The valuation of a collector’s item is based on the combination of three elements:
Their face value
It guarantees in fine that the value of the coin can never be less than this. It is, in a way, its guaranteed capital, which, very generally, does not however cover the total amount of your investment: in most cases, as for the Louis at €10,000, but sold for €10,500, the pieces of the Paris Mint are offered more expensive than their face value.
Their metallic value
Unlike their face value, this varies depending on the price of the metal of which it is composed. With the price of an ounce of gold around €2,530, the metallic value of the Louis 2024,= which weighs 100g, is currently a little over €8,920. If gold prices continue to rise in the years to come, the composition of the piece could exceed its face value, and provide it with additional value, independently of their collector value, the third and final component of the value of the coin. a collector’s item.
Their collectible value
This trading value will be partly determined by its rarity – in the same state of conservation, a piece minted in 500 copies will logically benefit from a much greater value than an equivalent model issued in 100,000 copies. Beyond rarity, other parameters are taken into account: the quality of execution, the reputation of the engraving workshop, the originality of the strike, etc.
If a piece which struggles to be valued for years can quite gain a lot of value at a certain period due to fashions, events, trends, themes suddenly put in the spotlight, it is of course recommended to find out about the statistics of past equivalent models and identify the models in vogue among collectors and specialists. Be careful to take care of the state of conservation of a collector’s item, and ideally, to keep its packaging intact.
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