Information about mint: Valcambi
The origins of our company date back to 1961 and a precious metals refinery built under the name Valori & Cambi. The founders of Valcambi were a group of private Swiss investors who have had an interest in the precious metals business for over 50 years. European Gold Refineries Holding SA (EGR) today owns one hundred percent of Valcambi. Till July 2015 EGR was owned by Newmont Mining (60.6%) and private investors (39.4%). Today EGR is itself owned by Global Gold Refineries Ltd (GGR) incorporated in Switzerland which belongs to REL Singapore PTE Ltd in Singapore (95%) and Rajesh Exports Limited (5%), a stock market listed company (NSE / BSE) in Bangalore, India. Apart from manufacturing bullion products, and occasionally legal tender coins, Valcambi also provides assaying services for other manufacturers - in other words, it checks and guarantees the quality of their products. Thus, the Valcambi assayer mark can be seen on many products of other companies; it is a rectangle, within which the letters CHI are in a circle on the left, and on two lines ESSAYEUR FONDEUR, which in French means foundry (or smelter) tester. On the coins it produces, Valcambi does not usually place a mint mark. If it does, it has the form of the letters CHI in a circle. |
| Country | Year | Name | Mintage | Mint Mark |
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| Jamaica | 1978 | One Hundred Dollars Gold 1978 Coronation | unknown | |
| Jamaica | 1978 | Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars Gold 1978 Coronation | unknown | |
| Niue | 1994 | Twenty-five Dollars Gold 1994 JFK | 25,000 | |
| Papua New Guinea | 1994 | Gold Quarter Ounce 1994 Bird of Paradise | 1,500 | No mint mark |
| Papua New Guinea | 1994 | Silver Four Ounces 1994 Bird of Paradise | 1,000 | No mint mark |
| Papua New Guinea | 1994 | Silver Ounce 1994 Bird of Paradise | 7,000 | No mint mark |
| Niue | 1996 | Twenty-five Dollars Gold 1996 Protect Our World | unknown | |
| Cook Islands | 2008 | Five Dollars Gold 2008 Aristotle | unknown | |
| Solomon Islands | 2008 | Five Dollars Gold 2008 Daedalus | unknown | |
| Cook Islands | 2009 | Gold Half Gram 2009 Orpheus | 10,000 | No mint mark |
| Cook Islands | 2009 | Five Dollars Gold 2009 Artemis | 10,000 | |
| Cook Islands | 2009 | One Dollar Gold 2009 Helios | 10,000 |
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| From Year | 1961 |
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| Country | Switzerland |
| Location | Balerna |
| Web | (official site) |
| CHI | On some of the coins it produces, Valcambi uses a mint mark in the form of the letters CHI within a circle. |
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| No mint mark | Valcambi does not usually put a mint mark on the coins it produces. |