The Ceratopsids are some of the most recognisable of all the dinosaurs, typified by Triceratops, famously depicted in battle with T. Rex. While Triceratops is the most well known, the family is diverse, having a wide range of different frills and horns, and new species are continually being unearthed. One of those is Regaliceratops (Royal horned face), [...]
Canada marks the centenary of the Royal Canadian Air Force, with a coin showcasing the aircraft it's used in service of its people A respected military force for its entire history, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was formed on 01 April 1924, from the CAF, itself inaugurated in 1920. However, Canadian pilots were a [...]
The Royal Canadian Mint continues its long tradition of nature-themed bullion with the second in their Ice Age Giants series of two-ounce silver coins. Launching last year with a Smilodon design, for 2024 we're with another classic beast of the period, the Woolly Mammoth. It's a typical RCM design, with a wide, star-burst border, and some excellent [...]
With a long history of nature coins, the Royal Canadian Mint has issued some beautiful designs over the years, none more so in our view, than the proof coins, free of gimmickry. What we're looking at here is a coin in the 'Great Hunters' series, featuring the apex predator, Grizzly Bear. It's a clean looking design, by [...]
The Royal Canadian Mint has a history of issuing some extremely attractive kilo-class coins, not simply bigger versions of smaller coin designs, but one-offs meant to be seen at the typically circa-100 mm diameters common to this weight class. At 102.1 mm across, the RCM's latest chonker actually carries a design that would look equally at home on [...]
The Royal Canadian Mint expands its nature-themed bullion range with four new coins Famed for their various bullion series themed around the extensive fauna of this huge country, the Royal Canadian Mint has spent the last decade or so issuing small series of coins, like their 2011 Canadian Wildlife, and 2014 Birds of Prey series. Despite [...]
The Royal Canadian Mint debuts its first 'Ice Age' two-ounce silver bullion coin - the fearsome Smilodon The Royal Canadian Mint has debuted its latest silver bullion series, and they've headed back to the Ice Age for inspiration. This is one of their regular 0.9999 two-ounce silver series the mint produces, usually nature based, although they've [...]
Nature coins are always popular, and there's a huge variety of designs and styles, often of a wildly varying quality, on the market today. There are shaped coins, dimensional ones, and a plethora of coloured efforts, but for us, nothing beats a cleanly struck proof coin that's focused on the artwork, and what better way to get the [...]
One of the better, and more prolific issuers of nature coins, the Royal Canadian Mint has just issued the second of its 'Colourful Birds' coins, following the 2021 debut of the first, the Blue Jay (image below). The latter has appeared on a Canadian coin before, as part of the 2015 'Songbirds of Canada' series, but the 2022 [...]
The Royal Canadian Mint has experimented with, and produced some super coins in the past, using a type of art composed of crystal-like facets. These employed the mint's ridiculously-named 'Extraordinarily High-Relief', and did so excellently, offering animal portraits on clean backgrounds, composed entirely of those facets. The RCM's latest isn't as ambitious, ring-fencing the faceted sections to the [...]
