The Royal Canadian Mint have done more to popularise the face value selling commemorative coin than just about anybody else, and case in point, this is the 19th release in their $20 for $20 series alone. First debuting in 2011, the series has traditionally featured strongly Canadian themes, but recently has veered off into some pop [...]
It's the first release run of the year from the Perth Mint and it's a selection more for the gift market than for outright coin collectors. There are however a couple of really nice coins this month. Easily the best for us are the proof silver versions of the first decimal coins used in Australia. Beautiful designs that look [...]
Now up for its 29th annual release, the British Pobjoy Mints epic Isle of Man Cat series of proof silver and bimetallic coins soldiers on into 2016 with the Havana Brown Cat. The first coin debuted in 1988 with the Manx Cat, the only breed of cat that has appeared twice (also in 2012), but a [...]
The Royal Australian Mint kicks off 2016 with a trip back to the past and the first designs struck by the fledgling Sydney Mint in the mid-19th century. Sydney, Melbourne and Perth were all branches of the British Royal Mint set up to process the large quantities of gold being mined in the colony. [...]
One of the world's favourite bullion coins, the Chinese Panda has been growing in popularity for many years, and as mintages have risen, more attention is being paid to the various specials put out to commemorate one-off events, usually in the Chinese financial sector. This new Panda coin is issued to celebrate the Bank of Beijing [...]
Dutch coin producer Numiscollect, known for such popular series as Sacred Art, Sea Treasures, and The Crusades, has always been an experimenter in the numismatic world, much like their counterparts in Liechtenstein, Coin Invest Trust. Never afraid to try something new and unusual, an ethos like that sometimes throws up something that truly stands out from [...]
Swiss based coin producer, International Coin House, have ended 2015 and started 2016 with a pair of new entrants in their Aureus series of semi-gilded Ancient Roman-inspired coins. Now up to eight coins in total, the series debuted in 2014 and appears to be popular enough to rapidly head towards double figures. The series takes key [...]
Eyvind Earle was one of America's great modernist painters, but is best known for his stint at Disney, being the only artist that Walt Disney ever gave total creative control of an animated movie to. Sleeping Beauty turned out to be an iconic masterpiece of creativity, but Earle also produced countless other pieces of work over [...]
Art-architectural coins have been a big collector favourite over the last few years, so perhaps it's only fitting that we get one more in before the end of 2015, and from a series that has had only a single entrant to date. Famous Opera Crystal is tightly focused on the worlds great opera houses and debuted [...]
The race to put new and interesting inserts in modern commemorative coins continues apace with the Mint of Polands latest piece celebrating what was once the most expensive Chinese antiquity ever sold at auction, the Qianlong Vase. There aren't many materials that you could use to represent a porcelain vase on a coin with, so the [...]
