The continent-spanning Trans-Australian Railway's centenary is commemorated on new gold and silver coins. When you get a continent as large as Australia, getting across it is never going to be easy. When that continent isn't the most hospitable place on earth, with only the coastal regions having significant population centres, the [...]
John Fitzgerald Kennedy centenary commemorated with a PT-109 themed silver coin from the Solomon Islands. While it's the Royal Canadian Mint and the Perth Mint that usually produce and strike limited run silver coins for some of the bigger bullion dealers, other mints sometimes dabble. One that does occasionally is the Royal [...]
The Royal Australian Mint debuts its latest Seasons Change Kangaroo coin in two finishes for 2017. Well into its third decade of release, the Royal Australian Mint's (RAM) Kangaroo Series of silver coins has long become a perennial fixture in the numismatic calendar. Over that time we've seen a multitude of [...]
Australian Southern Sky series of domed silver coins wraps with the constellation Cygnus. One of the earlier series of domed coins to hit the market, inspired as they were by the Monnaie de paris effort of 2009 celebrating the International Year of Astronomy, the 'Sky' series by the Royal Australian Mint has [...]
Australia Zoo series takes a detour from the usual crocodile silver coin into cuddly with Archie the Dingo For a few years now the Royal Australian Mint has been releasing blister mounted silver coins. Positioned halfway between bullion coins and fully proof finish coins, they've been featuring some of the awesome crocodiles [...]
Royal Australian Mint releases its fourth annual Sydney fireworks silver coin For the fourth year in succession the Royal Australian Mint is celebrating the city of Sydney and its bringing in of the New Year. Famous for its epic midnight firework display, and for being amongst the first major cities to move [...]
Fifty years since Australia changed to decimal currency commemorated Fifty years ago back in 1966, Australia moved from its old system of currency to a decimal one. The new and logical system is widely used in various incarnations around the world and Australia launched a new range of coins [...]
Iconic and beautiful Kangaroo at Sunset coin in 10th anniversary edition Launched in 1/5oz of gold back in 2007, the Wojciech Pietranik designed Kangaroo at Sunset coin from the Royal Australian Mint (RAM) has become an absolute numismatic icon. A first glance an animal that appears difficult to represent [...]
There doesn't seem to be a flood of Summer Olympic coins this time around, but what has been released has seemed popular enough. Case in point is the new trilogy of coins from the Royal Australian Mint. Released less than two weeks ago, they've already sold out, helped no doubt by the Aussie love of sporting [...]
Domed coins have been a big hit over the last few years as the ability to strike them to a high standard has spread from the Monnaie de Paris to other mints. One of the first to embrace the format was the Royal Australian Mint back in 2012 with a space coin depicting the constellation Crux, [...]
