Our galactic neighbourhood, the Milky Way, shines on new coins from the Czech Mint, and the Austrian Mint

By |2022-07-12T21:43:14+01:00July 12th, 2022|Categories: Coloured, Nature, Austria, Austrian Mint, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|

Our galactic neighbourhood, the Milky Way, shines on new coins from the Czech Mint, and the Austrian Mint There’s no place like home! Our solar system sits within the Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy approximately 150-200,000 light years in diameter. It’s part of the Local Group of galaxies, which form part of the Virgo Supercluster, [...]

Austria continues its numismatic journey through the prehistoric world of the Supersaurs

By |2020-06-14T14:41:23+01:00June 14th, 2020|Categories: Bi-Metallic, Coloured, Nature, Austria, Austrian Mint|

We don't cover much in the way of base metal coins here, with usually just a little nod to a version of a silver coin, like those from the Royal Mint, but our love of a good dinosaur coin outweighs our apprehension. With sales of this coin series being pretty explosive, there's clearly interest, so here we are, if a [...]

Big Brother is watching and the Austrian Mint’s 18th silver niobium coin is in on it…

By |2020-03-18T22:26:36+00:00March 18th, 2020|Categories: Culture, Austria, Inserts, Austrian Mint, Science, Silver|

Big Brother is watching and the Austrian Mint's 18th silver niobium coin is in on it... The annual trip to Niobiumland by the Austrian Mint is here again and for 2020 it's a timely look at the world of surveillance, with 'Big Data'. As with all of the coins in this series, it's a [...]

Austrian Mint celebrates the Salzburg Festival with an unusual flat-bottomed domed coin

By |2020-01-22T23:10:17+00:00January 22nd, 2020|Categories: Culture, Event, Coloured, Austria, Austrian Mint, Silver|

Austrian Mint celebrates the Salzburg Festival with an unusual flat-bottomed domed coin Domed coins have been an interesting addition to the numismatic world since the Monnaie de Paris introduced its astronomy themed issue back in 2009, which was then popularised by a string of series featuring the same subject by the Royal [...]

Austrian celebration of 825 years of the Vienna Mint continues with the second of its limited bullion trio

By |2019-03-20T21:59:41+00:00March 20th, 2019|Categories: Bullion, History, Austria, Austrian Mint, Silver|

Austrian celebration of 825 years of the Vienna Mint continues with the second of its limited bullion trio Producers of the Wienna Philharmoniker bullion coin range, one of the worlds most numerous, the Austrian Mint has no real recent history of limited run bullion coins. Earlier this year that changed, [...]

Austrian Mint celebrates 825 years of the Vienna Mint with the first of a new silver bullion coin trio

By |2018-12-17T17:41:52+00:00December 17th, 2018|Categories: Bullion, History, Austria, Austrian Mint, Silver|

Austrian Mint celebrates 825 years of the Vienna Mint with the first of a new silver bullion coin trio One of the big guns in the bullion coin world since its debut in 1989, the Philharmonic has been very successful for the Austrian Mint. Silver joined the gold range in 2008, and [...]

Take a peek at Uranus with a new niobium planet coin in Palau’s Solar System series

By |2018-10-12T00:02:04+01:00October 11th, 2018|Categories: Nature, Inserts, Austrian Mint, Silver, Palau|

Take a peek at Uranus with a new niobium planet coin in Palau's Solar System series A popular series that debuted in 2003, the Austrian Mint's Niobium coins have been an annual fixture on the numismatic calendar ever since. Interest in most coin series tends to fade away over time, but this [...]

Austria wraps up its six-coin Wildlife in Our Sights gold coin series with the ubiquitous Mallard

By |2018-09-14T13:52:45+01:00September 14th, 2018|Categories: Gold, Nature, Austria, Austrian Mint|

Austria wraps up its six-coin Wildlife in Our Sights gold coin series with the ubiquitous Mallard After six issues, the Austrian Mint has wrapped up its superb Wildlife in our Sights gold coin series with the launch of the Mallard. First appearing in 2013, this circa ½ oz 0.986 gold range has [...]

Austria launches Anthropocene, the sixteenth annual Niobium coin in its award winning series

By |2018-05-02T21:42:15+01:00May 2nd, 2018|Categories: News Nuggets, Coloured, Nature, Austria, Inserts, Austrian Mint|

Austria launches Anthropocene, the sixteenth annual Niobium coin in its award winning series The Austrian Mints highly regarded Niobium series enters its sixteenth year with a pretty cool loooking coin called Anthropocene. The Earth has gone through many great geological periods in its 4.5 billion year history and the latest and [...]

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