We seem to say this every month, but it's another bumper release run from the Royal Canadian Mint. A broad mix of gold, silver and platinum coins, some gilded and some coloured, the subjects cover aspects history and nature. There are continuations of several series like the Canadian Songbirds, First World War Battlefront and North American Sportfish sets. The [...]
Murano glass has been making ever more appearances in and on commemorative coins as of late, most recently on an interesting pair that debuted at Berlins World Money Fair from Numiscom and Coin Invest Trust. It was the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) however, that kicked off the trend in 2011 with a unique application that became incredibly popular, and [...]
As promised, here are the other nine coins from the ten released by the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) to celebrate the holding of the FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada. Held every four years, women's football has reached exceptional standards over the last few years and stadiums regularly sell out throughout the world, so this will certainly be a [...]
The next of the Royal Canadian Mint's extremely popular $20 for $20 coins has launched today and it celebrates one of the most important womens sporting events in the calendar, the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup. The range that pioneered the $ for $ concept now beginning to be embraced by other mints, the RCM releases have covered a [...]
As we've come to expect, the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) have another bumper month of new releases. We've already covered the Singing Moon Mask range and the new Battlefront sets that have debuted, and we'll have a post up tomorrow with all the new additions to the RCM's multitude of ongoing series. Here we have the coins that round [...]
For the first time in seventeen years this week, the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II has been updated on the back of British currency with the announcement of a new portrait by Jody Clark, designer of the 2014 proof Britannia. In the same week, the Royal Canadian Mint has released four new coins, three of which kick off new [...]
First up in this month's Royal Canadian Mint coin-fest is the latest of their First Nations coins celebrating Aboriginal culture. There are two releases this time around with a very limited (300) gold coin coming in at more than one-ounce (33.17 g) and costing $2,995.95 CAD. Highlighted with red and black enamel, it certainly is a bright looking piece. [...]
This attractive horse coin marks the arrival of the first $100 for $100 coin of two to be released by the Royal Canadian Mint in 2015. Following on from the highly successful $20 for $20 range, one since emulated by others like the Royal Mint, the $100 range kicked off with a Bison and a Grizzly coin in [...]
As we said in our previous post covering the Royal Canadian Mints latest releases, it's been another bumper month and here we have the other batch of new coins for February. The biggest release this month is one of the RCM's comparatively rare one-kilo coins and the follow-on to the beautiful Snowy Owl from last year. This time [...]
The Royal Canadian Mints dynamic alternatives to the relatively staid Maple Leaf bullion coins continue apace with new additions to both the gold and silver series of wildlife-themed coins. Designed to offer a limited run alternative to one of the world's most popular bullion coins, interest in these coins as been very high since the debut of the [...]
