One of the few producers occasionally issuing half-gram 'minigold' coins, the Royal Australian Mint started a new series in 2021, called Mini Money, launching with a neat Koala design. It's back for 2022, continuing the series theme of iconic Australian animals, with the Kookaburra. Admittedly, this is a rendered image, but that does look very good. How well it [...]
LPM's second 'Australia's Most Dangerous' series returns in five-ounce bullion, and one-ounce colored proof forms While the third coin in this neat bullion series produced by the Royal Australian Mint, and distributed by LPM, debuted last September, this series has a habit of issuing the one-ounce gold and silver variants first, followed a year or so [...]
Now hopping into its 29th year, the Royal Australian Mint's Kangaroo series returns with 'Impressions of Australia' The 2022 edition of the Royal Australian Mint's Kangaroo series of coins is the penultimate issue before it celebrates its 30th anniversary next year. Quite the achievement for a proof series these days, especially given the relatively rapid turnover [...]
A big and varied selection of the latest gold and silver bullion coins in our February 2022 roundup of new releases The bullion coins continue to come out, so it's time for another of our lightweight round-ups of the new releases. There are a few missing, like the new Wedge-tailed Eagle from the Perth Mint, [...]
In a change from it's current deadly wildlife, the Royal Australian Mint looks to extinct deadly wildlife for a coin.. Australian coin producers have built their businesses on mining the highly unusual national fauna for inspiration. Surely the strangest and most varies ecosystem on the planet, you can see why coins featuring it have been [...]
The Royal Australian Mint's 'Pirate Queen's' bullion series continues with the legendary Ching Shih It didn't take long for the Royal Australian Mint to replace it's neat inverted triangular shipwreck series with something equally nautical, as in July of this year they debuted the first 'Pirate Queen's' bullion coin. That debut featured the well-known Anne Bonny, [...]
Royal Australian Mint issues a new silver coin pair looking at Aboriginal history and their bouncy wildlife The Royal Australian Mint continues to quietly release some really nice coins, and this latest pair are a good example of that. Both weigh in at half an ounce of 0.999 silver, have a proof finish, and the simple [...]
Australia's Most Dangerous bullion coin series from the Royal Australian Mint and LPM, returns with a sting in its tail Along with the 'Australian Zoo' bullion coin series, the Royal Australian Mint also produces another range extolling the virtues of this continents happy, friendly wildlife called 'Australia's Most Dangerous. Actually, a series called Australia's Not Dangerous probably [...]
A very pretty series of bullion coins, 'Dolphins' is another nature-themed bullion coin series from a continent famed for them. The Perth Mint has made the subject a staple of their bullion selection, and the other major Australian producer, the Royal Australian Mint, has also jumped in with some superb issues. The dolphin series belongs to the [...]
The skull & crossbones returns with Anne Bonny, the first of the Royal Australian Mint’s ‘Pirate Queens’ Just like the movie industry, it seems what's in vogue comes in waves, and one of the current subjects that seem to crop up in the bullion coin market has been the world of pirates and old sailing vessels. [...]
