The Royal Australian Mint kicks off 2016 with a trip back to the past and the first designs struck by the fledgling Sydney Mint in the mid-19th century. Sydney, Melbourne and Perth were all branches of the British Royal Mint set up to process the large quantities of gold being mined in the colony. [...]
One of the world's favourite bullion coins, the Chinese Panda has been growing in popularity for many years, and as mintages have risen, more attention is being paid to the various specials put out to commemorate one-off events, usually in the Chinese financial sector. This new Panda coin is issued to celebrate the Bank of Beijing [...]
Dutch coin producer Numiscollect, known for such popular series as Sacred Art, Sea Treasures, and The Crusades, has always been an experimenter in the numismatic world, much like their counterparts in Liechtenstein, Coin Invest Trust. Never afraid to try something new and unusual, an ethos like that sometimes throws up something that truly stands out from [...]
Swiss based coin producer, International Coin House, have ended 2015 and started 2016 with a pair of new entrants in their Aureus series of semi-gilded Ancient Roman-inspired coins. Now up to eight coins in total, the series debuted in 2014 and appears to be popular enough to rapidly head towards double figures. The series takes key [...]
Eyvind Earle was one of America's great modernist painters, but is best known for his stint at Disney, being the only artist that Walt Disney ever gave total creative control of an animated movie to. Sleeping Beauty turned out to be an iconic masterpiece of creativity, but Earle also produced countless other pieces of work over [...]
Art-architectural coins have been a big collector favourite over the last few years, so perhaps it's only fitting that we get one more in before the end of 2015, and from a series that has had only a single entrant to date. Famous Opera Crystal is tightly focused on the worlds great opera houses and debuted [...]
The race to put new and interesting inserts in modern commemorative coins continues apace with the Mint of Polands latest piece celebrating what was once the most expensive Chinese antiquity ever sold at auction, the Qianlong Vase. There aren't many materials that you could use to represent a porcelain vase on a coin with, so the [...]
Back in 2014, revered American coin sculptor John Mercanti signed with the Perth Mint for the first time to design a new bullion and proof coin featuring that most iconic of Antipodean birds of prey, the Wedge-Tailed Eagle. He produced a quite splendid piece of work that rapidly became possibly the finest looking bullion coin of [...]
Deep Impact week powers on with a fine piece combing two popular trends into a single design. The first of those trends is the increasing use of five-ounces as a weight for numismatics. The second is the hit status afforded to domed coins. With Sikhote Alin being a 5oz coin and the Mint of Polands Solar [...]
The third in what is turning out to be a fine series of meteorite coins from the Mint of Poland has just been announced, and features an extremely powerful strike from 35 million years ago, Popigai. Located in the Russian region of Siberia, Popigai is the fourth largest verified impact crater on Earth at [...]
