The Perth Mint’s pretty Australian Swan bullion coin returns with a seventh design in gold and silver

By |2023-04-25T12:25:19+01:00April 25th, 2023|Categories: Bullion, Gold, Nature, Australia, Silver, Perth Mint|

The Perth Mint's pretty Australian Swan bullion coin returns with a seventh design in gold and silver As one of the first in the Perth Mint's new wave of lower mintage bullion coin series, the Australian Swan was a huge hit on its release back in 2017. Maintaining the signature style defined over many years by [...]

Having a bad Monday? Mellow out with a cow, or swim with a penguin on the Royal Australian Mint’s new bullion coins

By |2023-04-03T15:47:00+01:00April 3rd, 2023|Categories: Culture, Bullion, Nature, Australia, Gold, Politics & Finance, Silver, Royal Australian Mint|

Having a bad Monday? Mellow out with a cow, or swim with a penguin on the Royal Australian Mint's new bullion coins Not one, but two new bullion coins have dropped at the Royal Australian Mint today, one a continuation of an existing series, the other the first in a new one. The all-new range is [...]

Fighting Spirit Kangaroo 1/2 oz silver coin (2023 Royal Australian Mint)

By |2023-03-07T20:06:39+00:00March 7th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Nature, Australia, Silver, Royal Australian Mint|

A real icon in the numismatic world, the Royal Australian Mint's many kangaroo designs have garnered a big audience and several awards along the way. The beautiful 'Kangaroo At Sunset'  is an object lesson is heavily stylised, but very simple design, and there have been numerous issues over the years with a similar theme. Indeed, 2023 will mark [...]

Bullion round-up 15: Batman, birds, dragons, scientists, monkeys, and a Slavic sea spirit, Does it get more varied than that!

By |2023-03-01T22:01:23+00:00March 1st, 2023|Categories: APMEX, Bullion roundup, Culture, Bullion, Coloured, Australia, Gold, Nature, Barbados, Silver, Cameroon, Mint of Gdansk, National Bank of Serbia, Perth Mint, Samoa, Serbia, Scottsdale Mint|

Bullion round-up 15: Batman, birds, dragons, scientists, monkeys, and a Slavic sea spirit, Does it get more varied than that! Part two is here, although we called it round-up 15 for clarity, and there's another varied selection from around the world. The Komodo Dragon literally just came out, and barely scraped in, but it's a great [...]

Creatures of the Deep proof coin (2023 Royal Australian Mint)

By |2023-02-08T22:37:12+00:00February 8th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Gold, Nature, Australia, Science, Silver, Royal Australian Mint|

Australia expends considerable time and money monitoring and protecting its unique ecosystem, and one of the more impressive scientific instruments at its disposal is the RV Investigator. This 94-metre long research vessel, built in Singapore, was launched in 2014, and used by the Australian Government for oceanographic studies, geoscience, and fisheries research. Packed to the gills [...]

Bullion round-up 12: Australia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Samoa, and the UK, add new coins in our last collation of 2022

By |2023-12-07T01:41:58+00:00December 19th, 2022|Categories: Bullion roundup, Bullion, Bullion Round, Australia, Gold, Silver, Cambodia, Cameroon, Germania Mint, Le Grand Mint, LPM HK, Perth Mint, Samoa, Royal Australian Mint, United Kingdom|

Bullion round-up 12: Australia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Samoa, and the UK, add new coins in our last collation of 2022 Our twelfth bullion round-up was due to go live late on Friday, but a refresh to the site's theme framework meant our attention was occupied elsewhere. It comes with quite a few tweaks, which we'll try to [...]

Wallal Centenary Australia Tests Einstein’s Theory silver coin (2022 Royal Australian Mint)

By |2022-09-21T21:26:28+01:00September 21st, 2022|Categories: Quicklooks, Australia, Science, Silver, Royal Australian Mint|

Albert Einstein was a giant in the scientific community, and his Theory of General Relativity was probably his greatest work. Ten years earlier, in 1905, he published a paper linking space and time, called Special Relativity. General Relativity expanded on it by incorporating gravity, saying the observed gravitational effect between masses is the result of their warping of [...]

Australian Dinosaurs four-coin set explores the continents past, and it’s as varied as the present

By |2022-09-06T21:03:38+01:00September 6th, 2022|Categories: Australia, Nature, Silver, Royal Australian Mint|

Australian Dinosaurs four-coin set explores the continents past, and it's as varied as the present More dinosaurs, this time from the Royal Australian Mint (RAM), who've launched a four-coin set in silver. A few years ago, the Perth Mint released five coins in their Australian Age of Dinosaurs series, featuring several beasts of old that were [...]

Quokka 1 oz silver bullion coin (2022 Perth Mint)

By |2022-08-19T13:53:45+01:00August 19th, 2022|Categories: Quicklooks, Bullion, Nature, Australia, Silver, Perth Mint|

One of the Perth Mint's many nature-themed bullion coin series, the Quokka, which depicts a small marsupial native to Western Australia, is now on its third release with the debut of the 2022 coin. These are neat little coins, very much in the Perth Mint style, and this year's looks to be a good one, replete with some [...]

Australian Brumby Horse 2 oz silver proof coin (2022 Perth Mint / LPM)

By |2022-08-04T02:18:07+01:00August 4th, 2022|Categories: Quicklooks, Australia, Nature, Silver, Perth Mint|

The Perth Mint produced, LPM exclusive silver coin series featuring the Australian Brumby horse, is back for a third release. The main attraction will be the popular bullion coin, of course, but we'll cover that in our bullion round-up on Friday (I'd hoped to have it out yesterday, but one of the coins is still under embargo). Here we [...]

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