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 [...]
The second of the Royal Australian Mint's triangular bullion coin series, Australian Shipwrecks, is now available with an antique finish. Following the Batavia , this one is the Vergulde Draeck, which debuted in gold and silver bullion form back in the more blissful month of January. That one had mintages of 20,000 silver and 250 gold coin, [...]
AC/DC is back! Australia returns to its favourite rock sons with a stylish new range of silver and base metal coins Coins themed around popular music have been surprisingly popular over the last couple of years. The Royal Mint's Queen and Elton John ranges have sold very well, but it is to Australian legends AC/DC we [...]
Australia's pretty Spinner Dolphin bullion coin returns in prettier, proof high-relief form Appearing last December, the Royal Australian Mint's second dolphin bullion coin depicted a really nice image of a Spinner Dolphin breaching the surface of the sea. The setting sun in the background helped give the background some focal point, and all in all, it [...]
The Royal Australian Mint's innovative and attractive triangular bullion coin series has recently seen its third issue, but we're heading back to the first of them for this latest release. Batavia came out last year with it's standard 20,000 silver and 250 gold coin mintages and is back in very limited form with an antique finish. The [...]
