The National Hockey League is a century old and Canada celebrates with a silver coin One of the core North American sports, although very popular in central and eastern Europe as well, Ice Hockey is a contact team sport played on an ice rink. The sports governing body is the International Ice [...]
Royal Canadian Mint adds to its cutout nature coin series with the Whooping crane The second of a series of coins looking at Canadian wildlife, something the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) does regularly, this particular range employs a couple of techniques to lift them away from the usual output of this prolific [...]
Canada goes big and bold with a ten ounce Superman Shield coin in fine silver With the Royal Canadian Mint having released waves of Superman coins for several years now, the style and design has seemingly become more ambitious as time has moved on. This months big release is a good case [...]
Canada puts filigree on a coin for the first time with the Enchanted Garden Another bumper release run from the Royal Canadian Mint this month brings with it the usual mix of maple leaves, Canadian life and experimentation that the RCM has become known for. Fitting firmly into the latter category is [...]
Canada's 'Big Ben', the Peace Tower Clock is immortalised on a fine five-ounce silver coin It's a century since the Great War was raging and the numismatic world has been marking the numerous occasions with a wide variety of silver and gold coins. Battles, personalities, locations and equipment have all been showcased, [...]
Royal Canadian Mint debuts texturised colour with its new En Plein Air silver coin series As a mainstream coin producer that likes to experiment far more than most other national mints of their size, the Royal Canadian Mint debuts new coins almost every month that trial a new technique or two. One [...]
Numismatic peek into Canada's prehistoric past continues with the trilobite Ogygopsis The second of the Royal Canadian Mint's excellent Ancient Canada trilogy of coins is released this month and delves further back down the evolutionary timeline from the first release. The trilobite is a popular choice for a coin, both the Mint [...]
The Star Trek commemorations continue at the Royal Canadian Mint with two new silver coins It isn't just the Perth Mint that's continuing with its Star Trek commemorative coin range this month, the Royal Canadian Mint have made additions as well. Two new silver issues debut this month, one celebrating Star Trek [...]
Rhodium comes to Canada with its striking new black-plated Nocturnal by Nature two-coin series Some very nice new coins from the Royal Canadian Mint this month, a dinosaur one we've already covered and some fine Second World War coins that we've yet to look at. With the mint's newfound boost of enthusiasm [...]
Canada delves back into its amazing prehistoric past with a new two-coin rimless fossil coin series Always eager for new prehistoric life coins, they do appear with a reasonable regularity, but it isn't a genre that enjoys the sky-high benchmark quality levels of the art-architectural or ancient gods. There have been some [...]
