Hi! I Collect Elements.

That's a very interesting project, look forward to seeing pictures of your coins! You'll share them won't you?
And welcome to the forum!

Thanks for looking, Northwestseeker.

svslav, just click on the url in my first post; all the pics are there. Or did you mean pics of my type set? I haven't gotten around to updating those but when I do, I will definitely share.

OK! I can do that... although you probably don't want to taste Thallium. It's called "the Poisoner's Poison" for a reason!

I may not get to it for a couple of weeks though. Studying for a cert exam at work. In fact, I should be hitting the books right now.

How about coin like objects made from silicon? I have seen these at gem and mineral shows.

There is a website that has about 50 or so coin - like objects made from different pure elements for sale. I put a link to it on this Forum about 400 posts back. Unfortunately, I haven't a clue how to bring this link up again. Remember, some elements have allotropes and most have isotopes.


xphobe: I have found the site:

www.elementsales.com The company is known as Metallium Inc.

Don't poison yourself, or blow yourself up!

By the way, I once had about 200 grammes of pure metallic sodium. Very dangerous. It was stored under kerosene in an airtight glass chemical bottle. That stuff is poisonous, corrosive and explosive!

Probably explains why it is used at very high temperatures to transport heat out of atomic reactors, to heat exchangers. I always thought atomic reactors were rather crazy inventions. The stuff looks rather harmless under kerosene, though.

I would not want to pay for a coin made from Rhodium. A little pricey!

sel_69l: I've bought every medal Metallium has made to date. In fact, Dave custom made my Uranium medal for me after I sent him a small sheet of depleted uranium to punch blanks from. To my knowledge it's the only one in existence.

Some consider buying Metallium's products cheating, like assembling a coin series by buying unc sets from the mint, cutting them out and putting in albums. But I look at the Metallium series as an extension of my collection. According to an article in World Coin News, coins have been made from 24 elements. Not counting Metallium, I've found 26 and working on 27 & 28!

ayejay1974: yes, Rhodium is the most expensive metal (excluding of course some of the radioactive elements that are sold in micro or nanograms. But the spot price of rhodium took a steep dive a year or so ago, and now it's relatively affordable. I paid $430 for my Metallium medal - definitely not cheap, but it didn't break the bank. If you're thinking about collecting these I would advise getting that one first, before the price goes up again. Also there's another guy, Eitan Cohen, who makes smaller rhodium bullion coins that are more affordable.