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Downies continues its attractive ‘Australia At Night’ nature coin series with a 12th issue, the Bottlenose Dolphin
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Downies continues its attractive ‘Australia At Night’ nature coin series with a 12th issue, the Bottlenose Dolphin

Downies continues its attractive ‘Australia At Night’ nature coin series with a 12th issue, the Bottlenose Dolphin

By Mik Woodgate|2025-04-14T12:56:01+01:00April 14th, 2025|Categories: Gold, Nature, Silver, Downies, Niue Island|

Downies continues its attractive 'Australia At Night' nature coin series with a 12th issue, the Bottlenose Dolphin Coin series featuring the natural world, especially wildlife, have remained an extremely popular genre in modern numismatics. Virtually every producer has issues with this theme, and there are several series with releases in double figures. The genre is articularly [...]

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Deadly & Dangerous: Australia’s Tiger Snake proof coins (2025 Downies/Perth Mint)

By Mik Woodgate|2025-02-19T20:45:00+00:00February 19th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Gold, Nature, Silver, Downies, Tuvalu|

Still powering on after two decades, Downies Collectables 'Deadly & Dangerous' series of coloured proof coins continues with a 20th annual release. It says something about the general malevolence of Australian wildlife that a series depicting it can still be going strong for so long, but there are still plenty of unsung villains still not covered. The [...]

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Australia at Night: Red-Eyed Tree Frog gold and silver coins (2024 Downies)

By Mik Woodgate|2024-09-05T18:28:43+01:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Gold, Nature, Silver, Downies, Niue Island|

Australian dealer and producer, Downies, have issued the 11th design in their very impressive Australia at Night series. The series depicts iconic, and lesser known, native Australian animals, but in a nocturnal environment. It's a neat twist on a subject that is extensively used on modern coins, and to be honest, Downies have done a terrific [...]

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Deadly & Dangerous 19: Bluebottle proof silver coin (2024 Downies/Perth Mint)

By Mik Woodgate|2024-03-05T20:43:11+00:00March 5th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Gold, Nature, Silver, Downies, Niue Island, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|

One of the longest running series we've ever covered at AgAuNEWS, Deadly and Dangerous debuted in 2006 with the Red Back Spider, a coin that went on to garner enormous interest on the secondary market. It was a striking coin, but despite interest in the series reducing somewhat, no doubt due to the huge influx of competing designs, [...]

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Penned by noted 19th century Australian ornithologist, John Gould, Downies issues its second Birds of Australia coin
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Penned by noted 19th century Australian ornithologist, John Gould, Downies issues its second Birds of Australia coin

Penned by noted 19th century Australian ornithologist, John Gould, Downies issues its second Birds of Australia coin

By Mik Woodgate|2023-08-02T21:56:14+01:00August 2nd, 2023|Categories: Coloured, Nature, Silver, Downies, Niue Island|

Penned by noted 19th century Australian ornithologist, John Gould, Downies issues its second Birds of Australia coin It was only four months ago that we looked at the first in a new series of nature coins from Australian producer, Downies, themed around the bird world, and featuring the Eastern Rosella, a member of the parrot family. [...]

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Deadly and Dangerous: Australia’s Tiger Shark (2023 Downies)

By Mik Woodgate|2023-05-01T16:41:33+01:00May 1st, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Gold, Nature, Silver, Downies, Niue Island|

A perennial fixture on the numismatic calendar for longer than AgAuNEWS has been alive, the Perth Mint/Downies series 'Deadly and Dangerous' was once one of the hottest coin ranges around. Early issues of this series, garnered significant aftermarket appreciation, with the 2006 Red-Back Spider issue becoming almost legendary. The series doesn't attract quite as much attention [...]

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An illustration of the Eastern Rosella by noted ornithologist, John Gould, inspires Downies new proof silver coin
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An illustration of the Eastern Rosella by noted ornithologist, John Gould, inspires Downies new proof silver coin

An illustration of the Eastern Rosella by noted ornithologist, John Gould, inspires Downies new proof silver coin

By Mik Woodgate|2023-03-29T18:56:30+01:00March 29th, 2023|Categories: Coloured, Nature, Silver, Downies, Niue Island|

An illustration of the Eastern Rosella by noted ornithologist, John Gould, inspires Downies new proof silver coin We haven't had a look at Downie's issues in some time, which is odd as we're fans of many of their issues, like Deadly & Dangerous, and the very neat, Australia at Night series. Both those series are nature [...]

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DEADLY & DANGEROUS STINGRAY (2021 PERTH MINT)

By Mik Woodgate|2021-02-01T23:19:16+00:00February 1st, 2021|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Gold, Nature, Silver, Downies, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|

Once one of the hottest series in the coin world, driven by the phenomenal success of the debut Red-back Spider coin, Deadly & Dangerous is still going strong after 15 years. It isn't slowing down, with this week seeing the 16th coin in the series making an appearance. A one-ounce, proof with colour series issued for Tuvalu, each [...]

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Deadly & Dangerous is 15 and the big cuddly tarantula carries the baton for Australia

By Mik Woodgate|2020-02-06T15:53:35+00:00February 6th, 2020|Categories: News Nuggets, Coloured, Nature, Silver, Downies, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|

Deadly & Dangerous is 15 and the big cuddly tarantula carries the baton for Australia Hard to believe that Deadly & Dangerous is now fifteen years old. A testament to the popularity of the subject and of the seemingly endless supply of malevolent creatures that populate the Australian continent, it's fair to say [...]

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WMF20: Captain Cooks epic voyages mapped on a extra large silver foil from Downies
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WMF20: Captain Cooks epic voyages mapped on a extra large silver foil from Downies

WMF20: Captain Cooks epic voyages mapped on a extra large silver foil from Downies

By Mik Woodgate|2020-02-02T22:27:37+00:00February 2nd, 2020|Categories: Banknote / Foil, History, Science, Cook Islands, Downies|

WMF20: Captain Cooks epic voyages mapped on a extra large silver foil from Downies While the fledgling silver foil market has mainly focused on the ever increasing media franchise presence in the numismatic world, the early issues were more interesting and innovative in nature. First amongst these was a superb reproduction of a 1507-penned [...]

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