The 2015 Netball World Cup, like the FIFA World Cup or the Olympics, is a tournament held every four years. This will be the fourteenth time the event has been staged and sixteen teams will compete for the title of World Champions, last won by Australia at the 2011 tournament in Singapore. This time around the location is Sydney, [...]
This year sees the 800th anniversary of one of the most important documents in human history, the Magna Carta. There's plenty of information in the mints own descriptions below so we won't repeat it here, but suffice to say it was a landmark event that produced a document laying many of the foundations of modern western society. It's also [...]
The Royal Australian Mint has been relatively quiet of late with lots of bi-metallic issues, but very little in the way of precious metal coins, but here's a new release with a subject matter that remains pretty rare on modern numismatics, lighthouses. Australia currently has over 350 lighthouses dating back as far as the late 18th century, but none [...]
With the arrival of another royal baby making waves around the world, it doesn't need Einstein to know we're going to get inundated with coins celebrating the event. We've already had a 750-coin run of specially packaged gold sovereigns struck on the day by the Royal Mint,
Most of the world's major mints release proof precious metal sets of their circulating currency and the Royal Australian Mint is no exception, doing so in gold and silver. All six of the coins from the five-cent piece up to the $2 are represented and we're fortunate that it's a pretty strong set of designs overall. Designed by Stuart [...]
The ANZAC coins continue to pour forth from the Antipodean mints in what is rapidly turning into a flood. There have been quite a few releases to date from the New Zealand Post, the Perth Mint, and finally, the Royal Australian Mint. All are running on-going programs, some over several years, and there are plenty of individual releases like [...]
Starting in 2013 with the release of a coin featuring a Saltwater Crocodile called Bindi, the Royal Australian Mint (RSM) embarked on a twelve coin series depicting some of the impressive crocodiles that inhabit Australia Zoo. Each year sees a frosted-uncirculated (FRUNC) finish coin attached to a card, followed by a proof coin in a box later on. For [...]
To mark the 40th anniversary of the introduction of the Australian Honours System, the Royal Australian Mint has announced a new gilded silver coin. Established in 1975 with the creation of the Order of Australia, the system has grown to replace the old Imperial (British) honours system. Headed by the Cross of Valour which is Australia's premier civilian award [...]
The last of the three Australian Road Sign coins has appeared for sale, and after the 2013 Kangaroo and the 2014 Koala the series rounds out with another iconic Aussie animal, the Emu. There seems to have been a change to the size of the series, as last year the Royal Australian Mint claimed the Koala was the [...]
There's no military escapade more deeply ingrained in the Australian and Kiwi psyche than the failed Dardanelles Campaign, culminating in landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula, an Ottoman territory, on 25 April 1915. Now commemorated as ANZAC day, 2015 is obviously the centenary of the event and commemorative coins are a given. Designed to force the Ottoman Empire to sue for [...]
