In the last few articles I haven't written about precious metal coins or how my collection is growing. I want to start making up that deficit.There is probably no point in introducing well-known and widespread coins from well-known mints. I will focus on mints from my area. I will start with Slovakia, a neighbouring country in Central Europe with a population of about five million.

I was born in 1967. In the last millennium. The world was a very different place then. No one back then thought there would ever be an internet, multiple computers in every home, and cell phones in our pockets.When we needed to communicate with someone, we had a landline and letters or postcards.

I assume that the official text in each language will be about as unintelligible as it is intelligible. On this piece of paper resembling a banknote, the German reads roughly as follows:"Clearing slip for the german armed forces. Within the framework of the payment regulations for the armed forces in non-German countries, it is only issued to members of the armed forces and equivalent persons and is only exchanged from the hands of this group of persons by all cash offices and paying agents of the armed forces, Reich credit offices and exchange offices, and also in the Reich by the German Reichsbank and the other German banks." You can read this on the other side: "One Reichsmark, issued in Berlin, september 15, 1944. main administration of the Reichskreditkassen. This bill is intended for use in military travel and for the payment of fees in countries where payment in national currency is restricted. Its use in general payment transactions is prohibited." Approximately two months have passed since the unsuccessful assassination of Hitler. The German army had failed to repel the Allied landings in Normandy and Southern France. The Germans are retreating in Italy and on the Eastern Front. The Third Reich is crushed by bombing raids. Everything is collapsing.

Do you know any minsitr of finance that would be depicted on a coin? And also on a banknote. I only know one. And he's the subject of my article today. It won't be about precious metals. Although, in a way, it is.Each coin is actually a story. And the stories are often more interesting than the coins.

The coins are beautiful, especially the silver and gold ones. But sometimes I dare to write about something a little different under this brand.I collect coins, my 13-year-old son collects minerals. So today I want to look into his world.

Of course, I reckon that the price of gold and silver is always changing. I buy a coin a week, or rather 4 coins a month. But at what point do I buy the coins?I have the impression that whenever I buy coins, the price drops the very next day. And if I postpone buying, the price starts to rise. Actually, that's how my brain works. It mainly remembers failures.