The big lunars continue to appear, and with the Perth Mint, Royal Mint, and Numistrade launching their new Year of the Horse coins this week, it seems fitting that the Royal Australian Mint would join them. The horse is the sixth in the mints Lunar Investment Series, one of the prettiest ranges in this genre. The horse [...]
The Perth Mint debuts one of the bullion calendar highlights, the seventh Lunar Series III design, the Year of the Horse. One of the absolute legends of the modern numismatic world, the Perth Mint's Lunar Series has been going since 1996, when Lunar Series I, specifically the Year of the Mouse, debuted. It wasn't until 2000, [...]
The Perth Mint adds to its esoteric range with a Ferris Wheel coin, and there's also a superb Honey Bee coin in tow The Perth Mint has just launched its August range, and some of them caught our eye. The mint outputs a lot of higher-end variants of its bullion designs, with a mix of pop-culture [...]
The spiritual successor to the Perth Mints hit 'Australian Stock Horse' bullion series that ran from 2013 to 2017, the Australian Brumby has today eclipsed its predecessor with a sixth issue. While the Stock Horse was bred for working with livestock, and has a calm temperament, great agility, and an intelligent nature, the Brumby are feral horses, [...]
It's April 2025, so we thought it was time for a little bullion coin catch-up on new releases I thought it was time for another catch-up on recent bullion coin debuts, so here we are. The idea was originally to make these a regular feature, but honestly, it's too much work collating and editing images, so we'll [...]
The Royal Australian Mint has been issuing some fine bullion coins of late, and their Lunar Calendar range is one of the more popular. We've covered most of them to date, and you can see the whole range, along with most of the RAM's recent output, in our comprehensive Bullion Profile summary of them all.However, there's been a [...]
While the first producer of bullion coins in Australia you think of might be the Perth Mint, the Royal Australian Mint has, over the last few years, been building up a range of their own that's at least as good when it comes to design. Like the Perth Mint, they have a penchant for nature themes, but there's [...]
The Royal Australian Mint brings the nations biggest icon back with Desert Life, the 31st issue in the Kangaroo Series One of the grand old ladies of the modern numismatic world, the Royal Australian Mint's 'Kangaroo Series', debuted back in 1993, and has enjoyed an annual run since then. Designs have been highly variable, made easier [...]
The Australian Emu is one of the Perth Mint's numerous animal-themed bullion coin ranges, although this one is exclusively distributed by European dealer, Metal Market EU. It first launched in 2018, and 2024 sees the seventh annual design, launching with the same options of gold and silver one-ounce formats, and with the same mintages of 30,000 and [...]
Having developed quite a wide and impressive range of bullion coins over the last few years, so wide that we felt a Bullion Round-up was a good idea, the Royal Australian Mint is finally starting its own Kangaroo themed silver bullion coin series. At present, it's just the solitary one-ounce silver format, but that's the most popular [...]
