Last year saw the debut of a new series of bullion coins from collector favourite, the Perth Mint. Released much earlier in the year that it's usual triumvirate of semi-numismatic silver bullion coins (Koala, Kookaburra, Lunar), and with a considerably higher fixed mintage at one-million units, the first coin depicted one of Australians best-known threats to human life, the [...]
One of our favourite silver bullion coins of 2014, indeed of modern times, the Wedge-Tailed Eagle coin designed by John Mercanti for the Perth Mint had its debut last year. First released as high-relief silver and gold coins with mintages of 10,000 and 1,000 respectively back in January 2014, they followed up with a standard silver proof and a [...]
For the first time since 1968, the Royal Mint is fabricating minted bars. After 47 years they're back in conjunction with their new on-line bullion sales business, Royal Mint Bullion. Previously selling only Britannia and Sovereign coins, the new minted bar range will sell alongside them to any and all in whatever quantities you like. Like the coins, there [...]
With 2014 now over and the United States Mint releasing the last of the years sales figures for its American Eagle bullion coin program, it's time for a quick look at the figures and the trends are pretty clear. With silver sales breaking the all-time record at 44,006,000 ounces, despite selling out of the 2014 allocation early, the mint obviously [...]
Debuting some 21 days earlier than in 2014, and before the bullion version hits the shelves (12th Jan), the United States Mint has made available for order the 2015 proof version of their seminal American Silver Eagle coin. It's a huge selling commemorative coin, almost hitting three-quarters of a million sales in 2014. Predictably, there are no changes [...]
To say it's a little late in the year to be releasing a 2014 bullion coin is probably an understatement, but that hasn't prevented the Central Bank of Russia from doing so with its gold Saint George the Victorious coin. In fact this year is actually a sooner announcement than for the 2012 coin, which was formally issued [...]
