The Perth Mint debuts one of the bullion calendar highlights, the seventh Lunar Series III design, the Year of the Horse. One of the absolute legends of the modern numismatic world, the Perth Mint's Lunar Series has been going since 1996, when Lunar Series I, specifically the Year of the Mouse, debuted. It wasn't until 2000, [...]
The Perth Mint adds to its esoteric range with a Ferris Wheel coin, and there's also a superb Honey Bee coin in tow The Perth Mint has just launched its August range, and some of them caught our eye. The mint outputs a lot of higher-end variants of its bullion designs, with a mix of pop-culture [...]
The spiritual successor to the Perth Mints hit 'Australian Stock Horse' bullion series that ran from 2013 to 2017, the Australian Brumby has today eclipsed its predecessor with a sixth issue. While the Stock Horse was bred for working with livestock, and has a calm temperament, great agility, and an intelligent nature, the Brumby are feral horses, [...]
It's April 2025, so we thought it was time for a little bullion coin catch-up on new releases I thought it was time for another catch-up on recent bullion coin debuts, so here we are. The idea was originally to make these a regular feature, but honestly, it's too much work collating and editing images, so we'll [...]
Music legends don't get any more legendary than James Marshall Hendrix, known to the world as Jimi Hendrix. His mastery of the electric guitar was almost absolute, and his hits remain loved to this day. Born in 1942, he started with the guitar when he was 15, but only gained fame when he moved to England in [...]
The most varied selection yet in our weekly look at some of the new coin releases (Week 47, 2024) A bit later than normal, here's our weekly round-up of some of the more interesting releases that have come to our attention over the last week. We should have been live on Friday, but we had a small [...]
The Chinese contribution to mankinds scientific progress is showcased on The Coin Company's latest five-ounce silver coin The Coin Company have, with the Perth Mint, released their latest antique-finished high-relief coin, and it's another showcasing five-ounce issue showcasing Chinese history and culture. Previous issues have included the Five Auspicious Creatures, Dragon & Phoenix, and Fu [...]
The Australian Emu is one of the Perth Mint's numerous animal-themed bullion coin ranges, although this one is exclusively distributed by European dealer, Metal Market EU. It first launched in 2018, and 2024 sees the seventh annual design, launching with the same options of gold and silver one-ounce formats, and with the same mintages of 30,000 and [...]
Coins Australia and the Perth Mint debut a beautiful five-ounce silver coin celebrating the Chinese classic Dragon & Phoenix The Perth Mint has a fine history of releasing coins celebrating Asian culture, not just through its ultra-iconic Lunar Series of bullion coins, but through a wide range of coins covering an equally wide range of styles [...]
The Perth Mint has been busy over the last few months with new bullion releases, so here's a quick round-up of some of them Undoubtedly one of the world's premier bullion producers, the Perth Mint has garnered itself a fine reputation for its range of annually changing designs going back several decades. In recent years, [...]
