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. [...]
Here's a quick peek at the Austrian Mints 2016 entrant in its ultra popular Niobium series of silver coins. For the third year in sucession the mint has applied two different colours of oxidation to each face and this looks to be another superb entrant after last years very popular Cosmology coin. The subject this time is [...]
With the birth of the new Princess to Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge today, it was a fairly predictable next step that we'd see numismatic mementos of the big event. Earlier, we saw a limited run of gold Sovereign coins that were struck today, but now we're on to the main event with a range [...]
It has been half a century since one of Britain's greatest leaders died, and Sir Winston Churchill has adorned several coins this year in commemoration. The Royal Mint have released three tranches of them, one a portrait, one a £20 for £20, and one a range of big gold and silver coins. Now the Pobjoy Mint has released a [...]
Here's a quick look at a hot off the press image of Britain's new ultra-secure £1 coin fresh from HM Treasury. We believe this design will be for the 2016 run and not for 2015, but we should know more tomorrow when more information is released. UPDATE: It's the 2017 design. It's a good design, incorporating elements of the [...]
After a period of seven years, the Royal Mint's ultra-iconic Britannia is back on circulating currency in the United Kingdom. Adorning the bi-metallic £2 coin, the highest non-paper denomination in the UK, it coincides nicely with the introduction of the Queens new obverse portrait due to debut this coming Monday. It's a fine design, especially considering circulating currency is [...]
Not strictly an AgAuNEWS item, being a bimetallic coin, we do make the odd exception for something interesting, and this is certainly that. We're pretty sure that most are familiar with using a coin in a game, as a token for example, but we're pretty sure that using a coin as the games board is a little more unusual. [...]
