A popular format these days, although not especially at the Royal Australian Mint, the half-gram minigold coin will no doubt continue to be so at a time that gold is showing some increased vigour. Everyone collector likes a bit of gold in their collection, and while minigold coins are not the greatest value for money on a [...]
Australian Zoo bullion coin series is back with a pair of fine Cheetah designs, one in silver, one in gold The Royal Australian Mint's 'Australia Zoo' bullion coin series continues to grow with the addition of the second consecutive cat - the Cheetah. Last year saw a beautiful pair of Sumatran Tiger coins, which, as has become [...]
Australia's 'Southern Skies' gold and silver bullion coin series returns with a platypus privy mark The Royal Australian Mint's Stuart Devlin inspired bullion coin series 'Southern Skies' has returned after its 2020 debut. In truth, it's largely the same as last years design and the coin is clearly designed to fill the niche that almost all [...]
Royal Australian Mint launches 'Fraser's Dolphin' the third in its aquatic buillion coin series The Royal Australian mint's pretty 'Dolphin' bullion coin series is back with a third annual release. Following the Bottlenose Dolphin in 2019, and the Spinner Dolphin in 2020 (which you can see lower down), comes Fraser's Dolphin and it's another fine [...]
Royal Australian Mint launches a beautiful new 'Coat of Arms' bullion coin series in gold and silver The Royal Australian Mint is really starting to flex its muscles in the bullion coin market, after a few years of growing their presence with a succession of impressive designs. Their Lunar Range, Great White Shark, Dolphin Series, and [...]
A regular fixture at the Royal Australian Mint, the kangaroo has appeared on some iconic designs over the years, from Stuart Devlin's 'Mob of Roos', to the beloved 'Kangaroo at Sunset'. It's hard to believe the core Kangaroo Series will be hitting its 30th anniversary in 2023, but you begin to see why when we get designs [...]
Innovative Australian Shipwrecks bullion series wraps up with the tragic tale of the Zeewijk We're sad to say that the Royal Australian Mint's very neat 'Australian Shipwrecks' series has wrapped up with its fourth and final release. The first triangular bullion coins we've seen to date, each coin tells the story of one of the many [...]
Royal Australian Mint adds the Ox to its new range of silver and gold Lunar bullion coins We don't cover the lunar coin market as deeply as we have in the past, mainly because variety has tapered off and interest seems to be lower than before, but it is still a big market and there are still [...]
New coin issue from the Royal Australian Mint celebrates a centenary of service from the Royal Australian Air Force The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) joins the Royal Air Force in a very select club of nations whose military air organisation has hit that magic century in age. Little demonstrates the ingenuity and progress that [...]
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 [...]
