Bullion coin sales charts updated for the Perth Mint and the US Mint for January As we usually do, the bullion sales charts have been updated to cover the first month of 2017. We've done the United States and Perth Mints but the figures for the Royal Canadian Mint are sadly still [...]
BULLION COIN SALES FOR JUNE MIXED We've updated our bullion coin sales charts for the Perth Mint and the United States Mint to cover sales in June. As usual, the Royal Canadian Mint lags behind with its figures, publishing only quaterly. The figures for July will be interesting as they should [...]
PERTH MINT JULY RELEASES Just a few hours away from Perth Mints July coins which you can see listed below. The usual mix of proof versions of bullion coins and coloured gift coins, there's also be a surprise not listed here. Well worth a look back shortly. We reckon the Star [...]
NOW YOU SEE IT. NOW YOU DON'T. What is 20 cm long, 10cm wide, 6cm thick, weighs 15kg, and worth about $600k? A gold bar in the Japan Mints Tokyo office, recently returned after a holiday in a local pawn shop. A fifty-year old mint officer, Yutaka Umeno, decided the bar of [...]
WHEN IS A DESIGN NOT A DESIGN There's an interesting thread over at the Silver Stackers forum regarding the mineral insert in a Mineral Arts Hogwarts coin and one worth highlighting because of the wider implications. What we call art-architectural coins are without doubt one of the highlights of modern numismatics. Employing [...]
Not so much in the way of nuggets this week as we've been busy with back-end stuff agin, tidying up more guides to bring them up to date and be more readable. We're going to continue doing this, as well as adding more bullion coin guides instead of the numismatic-orientated Coin Series Profiles over the next [...]
It's the third of June and time, although a day earlier than usual, for our latest weekly news nuggets roundup of rumours, releases and site updates, etc. We don't go into great depth here but hopefully you'll find some bits of interest. This week the news that the Royal Canadian Mint are on the verge of [...]
Obviously lots of little stories don't warrant a full, and often time-consuming post, so hopefully, every Sunday we'll do a little news nugget round-up of the week with all the bits of news we accumulate. A mix of new coin updates, mint reports and variants, site updates and additions. No doubt the variety will increase in [...]
Obviously lots of little stories don't warrant a full, and often time-consuming post, so hopefully, every Sunday we'll do a little news nugget round-up of the week with all the bits of news we accumulate. This is the first one and is a mix of new coin updates, mint reports and variants. No doubt the variety [...]
Could it be that the Perth Mint is clearing out some of the old coin ranges in a move to something new? In the last couple of days the mint has announced that three of its long-running series are to come to their end. With the market leaning more towards the unusual and innovative at one [...]
