Coin Profile: Pressburg Mint Produces First Copper Product
Pressburg Mint debuts copper in its Chronos series, striking 1-ounce rounds in troy weight to elevate copper’s investment appeal.
Courtesy of Pressburg Mint.
For the first time in its 11-year history, the Slovakian-based Pressburg Mint is offering a copper product, 1-ounce bullion rounds in its flagship Chronos series. Available in 20-, 100-, and 500-round quantities, the rounds are measured in troy ounces rather than the avoirdupois ounces traditionally used for copper rounds. The addition of a copper offering and the weight selected reflect a growing interest in copper as the red metal’s price hits record highs, according to the Pressburg Mint’s promotional materials.
The rounds’ obverse design is a clock face with a textured inner circle surrounding gears. A stylized border circles the clock face. The date appears to the right of the gears, and a Latin motto, “EX CURPO ARGENTUM, EX ARGENTUM AURUM,” which translates to “FROM COPPER, SILVER, FROM SILVER, GOLD.” The Pressburg Mint’s website, dedicated to the copper round, explains the motto: “Copper is becoming the new silver. Not as a replacement, but as the next frontier—where affordability meets long-term potential, and where more people can participate in owning physical metal.”
The rounds’ reverse, which shares the obverse’s stylized border, depicts an infinity sign as a smooth incuse band against a field textured with the same wave pattern as the obverse’s inner circle. English legends reading “1 TROY OUNCE / FINE COPPER 999” appear in relief text along the horizontal ends of the infinity sign. Two incuse, smooth, semicircular exergues appear at the top and bottom of the reverse, with relief text reading “CHRONOS” at the top and “NOW AND FOREVER” at the bottom. A latent imaging security feature depicts what the press release describes as the “alchemical symbol of copper.”
The 2026 copper rounds are measured in troy ounces rather than avoirdupois. The Pressburg Mint’s web page describes the choice as “a deliberate standard,” casting it as “not a technical decision—it was a philosophical one…Troy ounces belong to the world of precious metals. They represent value, tradition, and investment. By adopting this standard, we elevate copper beyond its industrial roots—placing it alongside silver and gold in both form and perception.”
Numerous factors have pushed copper’s price to record highs recently, and some economists predict that declining worldwide production and sharply increasing industrial demand will continue to support high prices. Whether copper will become the “new silver,” a rarer metal with few overall industrial applications, remains to be seen.
The Pressberg Mint launched the Chronos series in 2015, the year it was established. The first issues were bullion rounds, followed by legal tender coins for Slovakia, Tokelau, and Niue. The Mint’s website explicitly connects the copper rounds to the inaugural silver rounds.
Tubes of 20 rounds are selling for $121.84 at press time. At the time of writing, 5,250 pieces had been minted of a possible mintage of 300,000, per the Pressburg Mint’s website.
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