It's April 2025, so we thought it was time for a little bullion coin catch-up on new releases I thought it was time for another catch-up on recent bullion coin debuts, so here we are. The idea was originally to make these a regular feature, but honestly, it's too much work collating and editing images, so we'll [...]
Downies continues its attractive 'Australia At Night' nature coin series with a 12th issue, the Bottlenose Dolphin Coin series featuring the natural world, especially wildlife, have remained an extremely popular genre in modern numismatics. Virtually every producer has issues with this theme, and there are several series with releases in double figures. The genre is articularly [...]
Scottsdale Mint heads off on its seventh bullion journey through the Eastern Caribbean, and there's aliens and unicorns as well (Week 42, 2024) With the debut of the seventh annual Eastern Caribbean 8 bullion coin program, we thought it would be a good time to catch up on those, and another couple of relatively recent bullion ranges [...]
For the fourth year, the Spanish mint, Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (FNMT), is launching a new 3.1 gram (1/10oz) gold bullion coin, in an annual series featuring wildlife from the region. The range debuted in 2022 with the Iberian Lynx, followed by 2023s Bull, and 2024s Carthusian Horse. For 2024, the design is of an [...]
It's 80 years since the biggest war in human history ended. The East India Company marks the momentous anniversary On the 8th of May 2025, the world celebrates the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, On this day in 1945, Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allies, bringing to an end the war in the [...]
Music Legends, the numismatic celebration of British music, continues with the Beatles icon, John Lennon The tenth in the Royal Mints long-running Music Legends range continues today with the addition of a quite superb John Lennon design, joining last year's fellow Beatle, Paul McCartney. However, the focus here is on Lennon's solo career, and his [...]
The Royal Mint's 'Queens Beasts Completer' coins make the transition to gold and silver bullion bars From 2016 to 2021, the Royal Mint ran a programme of bullion coins called 'The Queen's Beasts', featuring representations of ten heraldic animals originally sculpted by James Woodford RA for the coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II, held in [...]
The Royal Mint continues in its quest to distil all of British history and culture down to its 50 pence coin range with the addition of a new coin featuring the most famous work of Australian-British author Pamela Lyndon Travers, 'Mary Poppins'. As always with the Royal Mint, this is all about the literary origins, and has [...]
Still powering on after two decades, Downies Collectables 'Deadly & Dangerous' series of coloured proof coins continues with a 20th annual release. It says something about the general malevolence of Australian wildlife that a series depicting it can still be going strong for so long, but there are still plenty of unsung villains still not covered. The [...]
The Royal Australian Mint has been issuing some fine bullion coins of late, and their Lunar Calendar range is one of the more popular. We've covered most of them to date, and you can see the whole range, along with most of the RAM's recent output, in our comprehensive Bullion Profile summary of them all.However, there's been a [...]
