The worlds second biggest selling silver bullion coin after the ubiquitous American Silver Eagle (ASE), the Canadian Silver Maple Leaf can be found and purchased just about everywhere silver coins are sold. Instantly recognisable, they're seen as one of those coins that can be stacked in huge numbers because of the very low premium over the spot price of [...]
Agter looking at the New Zealand Post’s innovative rotating coin, the Perth Mint’s triple selection including a clever Intaglio silver coin, and the Royal Australian Mints effort, we head over to the other major Commonwealth country, Canada, to have a look at the range they've released for the record-breaking event. As is usual for the Royal Canadian Mint, releases [...]
The seventeenth and latest in the very popular series of face-value coins issued by the Royal Canadian Mint for Canada is now available for sale and depicts what has been the mints highest profile star, the superhero son of Krypton, Superman. Continuing the extremely popular $20 for $20 range of four-nines silver ¼ oz coins, this one will no [...]
The fourth and last of the Royal Canadian Mints 'Birds of Prey' silver bullion coins has now been launched. Designed to offer a limited run alternative to the Silver Maple Leaf, one of the world’s most popular bullion coins, interest in these coins as been very high since the debut of the first six-coin series called Canadian Wildlife back [...]
The word 'Genius' is banded around far too eagerly and inappropriately in todays soundbite driven culture, but when applied correctly it still has the power to demand respect. Very few people that have ever lived have earned the respect that this man has. Albert Einstein was a German theoretical physicist and amongst his many works he developed the general [...]
It's fair to say here at AgAuNEWS that we do give off a little sigh every time another coin with a Maple Leaf on it appears for sale at the Royal Canadian Mints website. There are literally dozens of coin designs and formats released every year adorned with the Canadian national symbol and while it is a fine, well [...]
Onwards with our round-up of the Royal Canadian Mints' releases from June and July continues with coins featuring the natural environment, with the three issues here all looking at different aspects of it. First up and the most innovative of the three, is the first in a new three-coin subscription looking at Star Gazing called The Universe. The mix [...]
This week, along with the regular news, we're also going to be playing catch-up with the huge mass of coins released by the Royal Canadian Mint in June and July. We'll be doing a post a day until we've highlighted all of the dozens of releases we've yet to cover, just in time for the next release run early [...]
Following on from last years RMS Empress of Ireland coin, the second release in the Royal Canadian Mints Lost Ships in Canadian Waters series is now upon us and goes back in time eighty years to remember the ill-fated expedition led by Sir John Franklin to chart the last part of the fabled North-West Passage. The mint itself has [...]
Pioneers and most enthusiastic proponent of precious metal face-value coins, the Royal Canadian Mint have released their latest Wildlife in Motion coin in the $100 series. Following on from the 2013 Bison and Grizzly, the 2014 Bald Eagle and Bighorn Sheep, and the 2015 Horse coins, this coin is the sixth in the $100 for $100 range and likely [...]
