First up in this month's Royal Canadian Mint coin-fest is the latest of their First Nations coins celebrating Aboriginal culture. There are two releases this time around with a very limited (300) gold coin coming in at more than one-ounce (33.17 g) and costing $2,995.95 CAD. Highlighted with red and black enamel, it certainly is a bright looking piece. [...]
A pretty good mix this month from collector favourites, the Perth Mint. We've already covered the 2015 Australian Sovereign, and the coins here represent the bulk of the rest for March 2015. The ANZAC commemorations continue with a poignant ¼oz gold coin depicting the grief over the loss of a fallen comrade, and a rare one-kilo silver coin celebrating [...]
Steeped in history, the Australian Sovereign has been produced in the former colony for 160 years, and in that time over 400 million of them have been struck to satiate the demand for gold. With Australia being so far from Britain and at the same time full of gold, it made sense to open a mint in the former [...]
September 09 2015 is a key date in British History. On this day, Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest serving monarch of this island nation, surpassing the record set by Queen Victoria, who reigned from 20 June 1837 to 22 January 1901, a total of 63 years, 216 days. In celebration of this landmark, the Royal Mint is changing the Queens [...]
We covered the new £2 Britannia themed coin from the Royal Mint just yesterday, so have a look over there for all you need to know, but we didn't expect the proof versions to debut until Monday as that's when the new Queens obverse portrait debuts, and these coins will be the first to carry it. However, they've appeared [...]
There have been an increasing variety of inserts put into modern numismatics as we're clearly in a time of experimentation for the worlds coin designers, some ridiculous and some bang on the money (no pun intended). This new coin from new producer, Art of Craft, is definitely bang on in our view. The first in what looks to be a [...]
After a period of seven years, the Royal Mint's ultra-iconic Britannia is back on circulating currency in the United Kingdom. Adorning the bi-metallic £2 coin, the highest non-paper denomination in the UK, it coincides nicely with the introduction of the Queens new obverse portrait due to debut this coming Monday. It's a fine design, especially considering circulating currency is [...]
One of Australia's most divisive figures, Edward "Ned" Kelly is thought of as either a folk hero or a multiple murderer. After the attempted murder of a police officer in 1878, the authorities went on a manhunt for Kelly, his brother, and two associates during which they fatally shot three policemen. The Kelly gang then went on to murder [...]
After covering a bimetallic coin yesterday, we break with tradition again and cover a medallion today, or to be more precise, a set of them. The Royal Canadian Mint is offering a set of six ½oz pieces that follow traditional coin specifications and design elements common to the Chinese mints, except for a denomination. Each of the six coins depicts [...]
Not strictly an AgAuNEWS item, being a bimetallic coin, we do make the odd exception for something interesting, and this is certainly that. We're pretty sure that most are familiar with using a coin in a game, as a token for example, but we're pretty sure that using a coin as the games board is a little more unusual. [...]
