North American Predators antiqued silver coin series concludes with the Grizzly Bear. The last of the North American Predators coin series from US mega-dealer APMEX has finally debuted, rounding out an attractive trio, and featuring one of the world's most powerful land carnivores, the Grizzly Bear. The first coin debuted last October [...]
2017 Somali Elephant coin debuts in a vast range of gold and silver sizes After a quick look a couple of days ago via some coloured third-party variants, the main range of the Bavarian State Mint's Somalia Elephant series of bullion coins is now available to pre-order. One of [...]
A quick first look at the 2017 Somali Elephant and the 2017 African Ounce We'll have much better looks at both of these coins in the near future, but for now, here's a glimpse at the designs of the popular African Ounce and Somalia Elephant silver bullion coins. Both [...]
The latest and ninth entrant in the popular Rwandan African Ounce series of silver bullion coins has appeared for 2016 right on cue and stays with the design layout that has been the series signature since 2008. Mostly identical every year except for the lower left-hand portion of the reverse face, the coins are nevertheless always attractive [...]
We reported on the new Somali Elephant design few days ago with the appearance of the gold version. At the time, we didn't have a silver coin image, so we mocked up a quick look that turned out to be pretty accurate except for one totally unexpected twist. That twist is the producers move to 0.9999 [...]
First pictures of the 2016 Somali Elephant bullion coin have appeared online in golden form. Much anticipated given the level of questioning about it, the design won't disappoint, even if it is a little familiar. Struck by Bayerisches Hauptmünzamt in Munich for Emporium Hamburg, this one has been a perennial fvourite amongst collectors, with the earlier [...]
Generally considered to be one of the more widely liked, although not heavily purchased silver bullion coins, the Somali Elephant debuted in 2004. Originally launching in 1999 and issued for Zambia, the change of issuing state saw a new injection of life into the series that's ultimately led to it's wide acceptance today, despite coming from what by any [...]
Making its debut back in June 2013, the Young Wildlife series kicked off with a really superb Tiger cub coin that had quite a beautiful design and offered a fresh look at this magnificent animal. All went quiet and despite being told it was to be a new series of coins, nothing appeared in 2014. Well now the 2014 [...]
