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 [...]
Downies striking Australia at Night series of black proof silver coins continues with the Echidna The third of Downies 'Australia at night' coins is available from today and is another attractive entrant in this striking series. Finished as a 'Black proof', it's surprising how effective something as simple as a [...]
Deadly & Dangerous returns as a six-coin minigold set from Downies One of the most sought after and hotly anticipated series in the coin world back around its late noughties debut, Deadly & Dangerous rose to prominence on the back of a now iconic Red-back Spider design. A new one-ounce silver has been [...]
Australia's most iconic animal joins the Platypus in Downies Australia by Night coin series Back after its debut last year, Downies 'Australia at Night' series takes another darkened look at the weird and wonderful wildlife of this southern continent. The first issue had a fine look at the Platypus, the Donald Duck/Mickey [...]
Deadly & Dangerous is back with another in the seemingly endless lineup of malevolent Australian fauna Did uyou here the one about the Australian fluffy bunny rabbit? Neither did we. The more you read about the wildlife of Australia you'd realise the bunny was probably a blood-sucking zombie species with razor claws [...]
Full Metal Numismatic: Downies commemorates 40 years since Australia ended Vietnam War involvement Seen throughout the world as a predominantly American conflict, the Vietnam War also drew in several other Allied nations in the fight against the Communist North. In those countries, the war proved to be as divisive as it did [...]
Downies joins the Wedge-Tailed Eagle appreciation society with a new ultra-high relief silver coin A staple of the bullion coin world since the launch of the superb John Mercanti design for the Perth Mint back in early 2014, the Wedge Tailed Eagle has appeared several times since on coins for other producers. [...]
Australia at Night from Downies debuts on a black proof coin with the strange Platypus Australian wildlife coins are nothing new, particularly silver ones, but there's always room for something well done and a little different. We think Downies latest issue fits that bill perfectly. Australia has a quite extraordinary range of [...]
Deadly & Dangerous goes back to its beginning with a gold version of the iconic Red-Back Spider coin A series over a decade old, Deadly & Dangerous was one of the first truly hit series to emanate from the Perth Mint when back in 2006 they issued the Red Back Spider [...]
Downies takes its five ounce gilded coin format to the Australian Great Barrier Reef Last year, the Perth Mint issued a five-ounce coin to wrap up their equally popular Stock Horse series by combining multiple small pieces of art - in this case the designs from the five horse issues - to [...]
