Royal Australian Mint commemorates Captain Cooks voyage with a domed gold coin It's 250 years since Captain Cook set off on his famous voyage to the South Ppacific during which he landed on Australia. With several mints in Australia, it's obvious an event like that would get marked with some fine numismatics [...]
Australia kicks off 2018 by looking back at the convict era that began to build the modern nation It was in May 1787 that the First Fleet, a fleet of eleven ships, departed Portsmouth bound for the east coast of Australia - specifically Botany Bay in what is now the city of [...]
Famous Sydney New Years fireworks event celebrated for the fifth time in a ten coin series Sydney's New Year celebrations are known throughout the world, both for being one of the first major cities to move into the latest calendar year, and for the huge fireworks display. Held in a harbour full [...]
Australia celebrates two of the worlds premier sporting events with gold and silver coins Australia loves its sport to the degree that it's almost a national defining characteristic. Punching above their weight in many disciplines, they almost always put on a good show. With two major events occurring next year, it was pretty [...]
Charge of the Light Horsemen at the Battle of Beersheba remembered on Australian proof silver coin The commemorations of the First World War have continued through this year and will do so through 2018 as well and there have been numerous coin issues emanating from the worlds major mints. The Antipodean mints [...]
Seasons Change into summer for the iconic kangaroo on the third of the silver coin series A regular appearance on the numismatic calendar for over two decades, the Royal Australian Mint’s (RAM) Kangaroo Series is a popular premium silver coin series. While fellow Australian coin producer the Perth Mint uses the kangaroo [...]
Royal Australian Mint wraps up the night sky with a Northern Hemisphere domed gold coin The excellent and well recieved Southern Sky and subsequent Northern Sky series of domed coins from the Royal Australian Mint (RAM) wrapped up last year and while we've obviously run out of sky to cover, the mint [...]
The 2018 XXI Commonwealth Games is in Australia and a new coin pair launches from the starters blocks With the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games out of the way, the numismatic world of sports is looking to smaller events to commemorate. The sport of Rugby has been a relatively popular [...]
With the silver coin series complete, the Royal Australian Mint goes gold for Southern Sky One of the big hits of the last few years and an early entrant in the domed coin market, the Royal Australian Mints (RAM) Southern Sky and subsequent Northern Sky series wrapped up after six coins late [...]
AgAuNugget: Australian mint debuts the proof version of its Archie Alpine Dingo coin A popular series by the Royal Australian Mint, Saltwater Crocodiles has kicked up some pretty nice designs over the last few years, but there have been some occasional detours into different animals. The creature adorning the 2017 coins is [...]
