One of the neatest and most original bullion coins around, Australian Shipwrecks by the Royal Australian Mint and LPM, may have come to a recent end, but we still have a couple of the beautiful antique finished variants to come. At least we did have, as today sees the issue of the penultimate release in the four [...]
The New Zealand Mint's Disney behemoth continues to extend its tendrils into the bullion coin market with the second annual Christmas holiday issue. Sticking with the most iconic of Disney characters, Mickey Mouse, it's another festive themed design with Mickey holding a big candy cane, with a couple of snowflakes in the background field. The design is [...]
Also making a late run before the gate closes on this worst year for decades, the Barbados Trident bullion coin from Scottsdale Mint joins the Cayman Islands Marlin we looked at yesterday in finally dropping the 0.9999 gold version to sit alongside the silver that has been on sale for four months. Like the aforementioned Marlin, this [...]
The Cayman Islands Marlin debuted for the fourth time in silver back in July, but has now launched in gold as well, although for only the third time as it was silver only in 2017. No changes to the pretty design, with the wave-pattern border still in evidence on both the reverse and obverse faces. Just a [...]
Congo's 'Prehistoric Life' bullion coin series is back for a second 2020 outing with the giant marine reptile, Plesiosaurus The Democratic Republic of Congo's 'Prehistoric Life' bullion coin series is back with a second release for 2020. Following on from the release of Tyrannosaurus Rex back in July, the producer has headed away from land to [...]
Scottsdale Mint's unique 'hewn-edged' bullion coin series returns with the third in the Terracotta Army 5oz series Finally, after us thinking we weren't going to get our annual fix of Scottsdale's 'hewn-edged' bullion coins, the third in their 'Terracotta Army' series lands on planet numismatic. These quite unique looking coins alternate between the ancient Chinese and the [...]
PEZ is back in silver for a third issue, this time with the seasonal Gingerbread Man the star Santa, the Rubber Duck, and now the Gingerbread Man have been brought into the precious metal world by PAMP via its unusual PEZ homage. Taking on the appearance of the original iconic hard candy, the little silver pills [...]
The Ghana Leopard bullion coin from Scottsdale Mint is back for a fourth outing with a gold proof in tow Scottsdale are on a mission to catch up with their planned release schedule after the initial Covid-19 wave caused chaos, and the latest to see the light of day is the fourth in their African [...]
EC8 bullion series heads to the volcanic island of Montserrat for the third time with a dicky bird in tow A new addition to Scottsdale Mint's epic Eastern Caribbean 8 bullion coin series debuts today, in what has become a covid-enforced, truncated release schedule. There are still three more issues to come in 2020 as we [...]
The Bank of China issues its 2021 Panda, the third in a new 10 year journey for the title star Rapidly approaching its 40th anniversary, the iconic Chinese Panda coin is back in bullion and proof form yet again. A popular series that predated much of the new interest in annually changing designs, it has grown [...]
