Perfection by design.
Stefano Masolo – Minted products
These fantastic new, specially designed 24 carat gold Armillary Coins (A’coins) are unique, fresh, and modern in design. The multi-functional character of each of the four A’coins maintains the purpose of a CombiBarTM but includes a level of possible functions not previously obtained by any coin.
Superb professional craftsmanship and the use of the latest technology has enabled Valcambi to create these new avant-garde A’coins.
The round 999,9 one-ounce piece of fine gold, an investment product with a hole in the middle, is in fact four quarter-ounce 999,9 legal tender gold coins issued by the Cook Islands. They are attached to each other in concentric circles, and can be twisted into a piece of art resembling an armillary sphere, or separated into four single quarter-ounce gold coins. The complete item, as well as each individual coin, can be worn as a piece of jewellery.
The Greek astronomer, Hipparchus (ca. 190 BCE–ca. 120 BCE) credited Eratosthenes (276 BCE–194 BCE) as being the inventor of the armillary sphere.
An armillary sphere is a model of the celestial globe, constructed from rings and hoops representing the equator and other meridians, and able to revolve on its axis.
The name of this device derives from the Latin armilla (meaning circle or bracelet).
