The Central Bank of Ireland doesn't release many precious metal commemorative coins, usually countable on the fingers of one hand, but they do release some fine ones. With the 100th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Ireland coming up on the 24th April 2016, the bank is keen to commemorate the event and will release [...]
The New Zealand Mints 'Disney Princesses' series powers on to its eighth release with the classic Rapunzel. The first coin debuted back in January featuring Cinderella, the second coin depicted Aurora, from Sleeping Beauty, the third Princess Aurora from The Little Mermaid, the fourth Princess Belle from Beauty and the Beast, the fifth Jasmine from Aladdin, the sixth Snow [...]
The New Zealand Mints different take on the rising popularity of coins featuring ancient gods and deities was to step sideways and feature some of the exotic, fascinating, and sometimes downright weird creatures that occupy the same mythical universe. The first coin looked at the three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to the underworld, Cerberus, which [...]
A personal favourite series and one that is deserving of a much wider audience, Numiscollects superb History of the Crusades coins have been launching into the market since back in 2009. Each of these sterling silver antique-finish coins depicts a major character and a scene from the particular Crusade in question. This latest coin [...]
The Royal Canadian Mint have done more to popularise the face value selling commemorative coin than just about anybody else, and case in point, this is the 19th release in their $20 for $20 series alone. First debuting in 2011, the series has traditionally featured strongly Canadian themes, but recently has veered off into some pop [...]
It's the first release run of the year from the Perth Mint and it's a selection more for the gift market than for outright coin collectors. There are however a couple of really nice coins this month. Easily the best for us are the proof silver versions of the first decimal coins used in Australia. Beautiful designs that look [...]
Now up for its 29th annual release, the British Pobjoy Mints epic Isle of Man Cat series of proof silver and bimetallic coins soldiers on into 2016 with the Havana Brown Cat. The first coin debuted in 1988 with the Manx Cat, the only breed of cat that has appeared twice (also in 2012), but a [...]
The Royal Australian Mint kicks off 2016 with a trip back to the past and the first designs struck by the fledgling Sydney Mint in the mid-19th century. Sydney, Melbourne and Perth were all branches of the British Royal Mint set up to process the large quantities of gold being mined in the colony. [...]
One of the world's favourite bullion coins, the Chinese Panda has been growing in popularity for many years, and as mintages have risen, more attention is being paid to the various specials put out to commemorate one-off events, usually in the Chinese financial sector. This new Panda coin is issued to celebrate the Bank of Beijing [...]
Dutch coin producer Numiscollect, known for such popular series as Sacred Art, Sea Treasures, and The Crusades, has always been an experimenter in the numismatic world, much like their counterparts in Liechtenstein, Coin Invest Trust. Never afraid to try something new and unusual, an ethos like that sometimes throws up something that truly stands out from [...]
