Category: Investing

There are several reasons that make the Wiener Philharmoniker anniversary coin very attractive to me. The most important fact is the that it fulfills my Coin- Investment criteria which I have defined in the referenced post. (http://www.investinstuff.com/2016/04/05/successfully-invest-precious-metals/)

Facts of this coin:

quality:	proof
face value:	20 Euro
date of issue:	18.01.2017
coin design:	Mag. Helmut Andexlinger / Herbert Wähner /
diameter:	34.00 mm
alloy:	Silver Ag 925
fine weight:	20.74 g
total weight:	22.42 g

This coin comes in two variations, the standard edition which comes inside of a case including a numbered certificate of authenticity and protective slipcase. The special edition is a combination of an anniversary coin and a standard silver Philharmoniker coin in one case, also including a numbered certificate of authenticity and protective slipcase

The following reasons support this investment:

• general popularity of the standard silver Wiener Philharmoniker coins – on average more than 7Mio coins are sold from the Austrian mint directly each year
• very smooth design and golden colored emblem definitely attracts many  coin collectors
• low mintage of only 30.000 pieces in the highest quality
• high marketing efforts by the Austrian mintage
• very popular in pre-sale stage

Due to the mentioned facts, I would definitely suggest to Invest in the Wiener Philharmoniker anniversary coin – Now!

Good luck with your Investments!

cheers

Tom

Picture courtesy:

• https://www.muenzeoesterreich.at/produkte/175-jahre-wiener-philharmoniker

Today the presale of the new and very successful 3 EUR Animal coin series arrived in the online store of the Austrian mint. As already announced on my Watchlist and on Facebook these coins are a strong buy.

Not even 10hours after the opening of the pre-sales today the second coin is unfortunately already sold out. I was only able to secure 3 pieces of this fine coin due to very strong order limitations.

Link to the coin:

https://www.muenzeoesterreich.at/produkte/der-tiger

Main specifications of the coin:

quality:	special uncirculated
collection:	Colourful Creatures
face value:	3 Euro
date of issue:	22.02.2017
coin design:	Anna Rastl
diameter:	34.00 mm
alloy:	CuNi 25
total weight:	16.00 g

Dont let yourself turn away by the low nominal coin value, the original first edition of the animal series peaked today at an ebay reselling price of 100EUR and the new Tiger coin which is also sold out is already trading on ebay above 35 EUR –> this makes an instant profit of more then 200%.

I hope you were able to get some coins for yourself and wish I you success for future coin Investments.

SAVE THE DATE:

• Friday 3th of February –> start of presale of the German 5 EUR – tropical zone coin which is also on my Watchlist!
• https://www.deutsche-sammlermuenzen.de/Informationen/News/News-2017/Verkaufsstart-der-5-Euro-Sammlermuenze-Tropische-Zone/

cheers

Tom

picture courtesy/ sources:

• münzeoesterreich.at

At the end of the last year I analyzed many alternative Investment items that I did not consider before – also comic book Investments. At this stage, I also stumbled upon a very helpful early retirement blog which provides very good inside on comic investments. (http://earlyretirementdiary.com/) When comparing the history of comics and looking at some very old European comics eg. the LTB #1 – Lustiges Taschenbuch #1(1967) or the german Supermann- comics (1950)  these are only traded in top condition on a 4 to 5 digit area basis which means usually in the area of max. 10.000EUR.

Comparing these facts to the top 10 of highest value US comics (http://www.investinstuff.com/2016/10/06/top-10-comic-book-investments/) we are in the price area of 300.000 USD to 3.000.000 USD.

#Following criteria’s have a negative impact on comic investments in Europe:

• most comic investments take place in the US – not as conservative in terms of investments as Europeans
• the biggest market for comics is definitely Ebay.com –> currently shipping prices from US to Europe are still horrible and not really affordable
• To confirm the grade of comic quality there are certain institutions that do rankings on the original comics which will be sent off to them (all located in the US) –> too high shipping costs

#Facts in favor of the European comic market:

• Still, a young market and comics have theoretically a lot of potential for growing in value

 

Therefore, to the question “Are comic Investments profitable in Europe?”  – in some Cases, yes but the market conditions are way more difficult than in the US. Which means that I will for the upcoming time not consider comic investments as I am certain there are easier ways to make money from alternative investments.

cheers

Tom

 

Sources:

• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_in_Europa#1930_bis_1950

Recently I posted a comment on my FB-page about two new Investments for January 2017, one of it is the rare Limited Edition of “The Legend of Zelda” for the upcoming new Nintendo Switch.

The content of this limited edition is the following:

• The Nintendo Switch Game in a Limited edition box
• a statue of the Master Sword
• a handbook
• a CD with the Soundtrack

Currently the planned release for the Nintendo Switch and also the Zelda game is planned to be on the 3rd of March 2017, the game is already since 2013 in delevopement and was initially only planned as a WiU- Game but due to the declining succes of the WiU it will most probably be replaced in the future with the Nintendo Switch  – therefore it makes sense that this last original Nintendo Game for the WiU is available for both consoles. A small boost for Nintendo fans are the graphical advantages that are available with the upgraded hardware of the Nintendo Switch.

The european version comes into stores at a retail price of 99EUR and is still available in some stores now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The US version retails at 130 USD and comes with an extended content pack, which includes additionally a map of Hyrule, a collectors coin, a differend game box and a case.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think its a nice Investment as in some stores the game is already sold out, the quantities are very limited and exclusive and its also the last Nintendo Game for the WiU. As Investment I suggest to buy the limited Nintendo Switch version of the Game.

cheers

Tom

 

Picture courtesy:

• Nintendo.com
• Amazon.de
• http://www.giga.de/spiele/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild/specials/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-editionen-im-ueberblick/

Since May 2016 I have a position of silver bars and coins from the coin reselling company MDM. Originally the intention of this series was to create more products around the very successful Planet Earth coins which were officially released by the german

Originally the intention of this series was to create more products around the very successful Planet Earth coins which were officially released by the german minting institute. (see the relevant link to the original coins here:

(see the relevant link to the original coins here: http://www.investinstuff.com/2016/11/29/new-proven-coin-invest-profit/)

Due to the quick sell out of the first original  Planet Earth coins series I figured It would be a good Investment despite the fact that these coins were no original release, see below the link to the unofficial MDM products.

https://www.mdm.de/deutschland-muenzen/deutsche-euro-muenzen/5-euro-blauer-planet-erde

After a lot of problems during the purchase of the silver coins and bars, I finally got the silver bars and coins but despite their low mintage they are not sold out until today, which taught me a lesson to watch out for unofficially minted coins as an addition to a successful series. Don’t get me wrong, I still think that I am able to make a profit out of this coins or at least break even – but the momentum that I am looking for was not achieved with this Investment.

So watch out which coins you buy, think twice about every Investment and also check the relevant background data like the mintage, if original coin series from official mintage institute…

See my article for criteria’s of successful investments in the link: http://www.investinstuff.com/2016/04/05/successfully-invest-precious-metals/

Cheers and good luck with your Investments.

Tom

Beginning of 2016 there was a new coin series released in Germany. It was the “Planet earth” 5EUR series which consists of a plastic ring incorporated into a coin. This coin comes in five different color sets of its blue plastic ring. After the release in April 2016 the coins were sold out within a very short period of time although there was a mintage limit of 250k for polished coins and 1.5 Mio for the standard coins.

See below all important properties of the original planet earth coins:

Pictogram: „Planet Earth“
Artist: Stefan Klein und Olaf Neumann, Iserlohn; Alina Hoyer, Berlin (Adler)
Release date: 14. April 2016
Minting institutions: Berlin (A), München (D), Stuttgart (F),Karlsruhe (G), Hamburg (J)
Weight: 9 g
Diameter: ca. 27,25 mm
Material: Cu75Ni25, Cu81Ni19, Polymerring
Engraving: BLAUER PLANET ERDE • BLAUER PLANET ERDE •
Nominal value: 5 Euro
Mintage:
polished edition:  250.000 Stück;
standard edition: ca. 1.500.000 Stück

As the original coins were sold out immediately this coin series is definitely a good candidate for our Watchlist. See below the new 2017 coin:

New proven coin to Invest – 5EUR Planet Earth coins 2017

As announced beginning of November, the new coin of this series for 2017 will have an incorporated red plastic ring. The new topic of the coin will be tropical zones and a release is planned in April 2017.

A preorder is possible beginning with the 03.02.2017, mark the date for a nice upcoming invest.

cheers

Tom

Sources:

• https://www.deutsche-sammlermuenzen.de/Informationen/News/News-2016/5-Euro-Sammlermuenze-Tropische-Zone/

Picture courtesy:

• https://www.deutsche-sammlermuenzen.de

Why it’s easier to make profitable collector coin Investments in Europe compared to Canada or the USA. As I am often surfing around various different official minting websites of some countries I noticed that these minting institutions follow very different strategies from country to country.

For example, in Germany and Austria the official minting institutions only provide a rather manageable amount of collector coin series and for these series, they are also taking their time in designing the coins very nicely. Usually, this means there are not that many new collector coin series during a timeframe of one year. But due to this fact, the mintage is rather in a higher area of 30.000 – 70.000 on average for any coin of a given series to serve the market adequately.

Due to the limited amount of possibilities for coin collectors in the german speaking area, this means they don’t have a lot of options which leads often to higher reselling prices after coins are sold out from the official minting stores. Another factor which has to be taken into account is that professional coin resellers also noticed this behavior and buy higher lot sizes of all high runner collector coins which lead to a shortage in the supply of the official resellers and pushes the aftermarket sales additionally.

On the contrary for example, for the Canadian collector coin market, the official minting institutions follow a totally different strategy. I noticed that they create a very wide variety of new coin series every year, at least more than 20- 30 new series. Most of this new series have a rather lower mintage which makes them, on the one hand, more attractive but on the other hand due to the wide range of collections that are available I don’t see that much price pressure is existing in the after-market. Of course, there are always also profitable investing possibilities in every market. But the focus should be to make the process of finding the best possible investment as effective as possible – therefore I favor the European market more.

I wish you good luck in discovering profitable investments and maybe take a look in my overview article about where to source collectors coins.

cheers

Tom

As just released on various sneaker websites, the new Kayne West Yeezy’s will arrive in Austria next week. We will have soon the opportunity to sign up on the FB page of SneakerGallery to get one of the very limited Yeezy boots. This time they will come in three different colors as can be seen ín the title picture.

See below the facts for the new boots coming out next week:

• ADIDAS YEEZY BOOST 350 V2
  BY1605
  “CBlack Coppmt CBlack“”
  220€
  UK 3.5 – 12

From a reselling profit point of view, after analysing sales on Ebay.com the going rate is between 400USD and 800USD which should give provide us easily with least a profit of 100%.

Good luck for tomorrows raffle.

Cheers

Tom

Source:

• adidas.at (Picture)
• Facebook/SneakerGallery
• ebay.com