Royal Australian Mint kicks off 2020 with a homage to the world's biggest alluvial gold nugget find It was in March last year that the Perth Mint launched its Welcome Stranger golden nugget bullion coin. Not our favourite of 2019 if we're perfectly honest, as an amorphous blob of metal isn't the most aesthetic [...]
Have a great holiday and we wish you all a prosperous New Year It's that time of the year again when most of us finally get a break from the yearly grind and so we would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our friends and readers the very best [...]
Mint 21 goes spiritual with a new silver coin combining the mandala and the world of nature Mint 21 are back with something a little more unusual. There are only a few example of mandalas on coins, headlined by Art Mint's superb range of examples, so this isn't an over-used genre, and [...]
Australia reproduces its Kookaburra Penny designs a century after they were trialled Produced in the post Great War period from 1919 to 1921, the pattern Kookaburra coins were an attempt to revise the countries currency with new shapes, sizes and metals. After just a few hundred of the coins wer eproduced in sample form, [...]
Mythology mania continues with the Amazons, the Mint of Poland's latest impressive issue Despite the growing numbers of ancient mythologically themed coins emanating from the Mint of Poland, we still inevitably look forward to the next one. The sprightly release schedule means you don't have to wait too long and the latest is this [...]
ANA 2019: Silver and titanium combine to celebrate the Titans of Spaceflight on MDM's 1/2kg coin We've already covered a substantial number of the many coins issued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, but there have also been a few issues that, while they've incorporated the mission, [...]
Royal Australian Mint portrays the countries rebellious history on a new silver coin trio You would think that being surrounded by a selection of flying, swimming and running wildlife that is poisonous, venomous, or just plain mean, would make the average Australian love his fellow man. Unfortunately, the colonists decided mutiny and rebellion was [...]
D-Day 75th - Numiscollect debuts a two-piece bullet coin to mark the epic seaborne invasion One of major proponents of true dimensional coins, Numiscollect have issued some complex and beautifully detailed examples of this type of coin over the last couple of years. Their Egyptian coins are perfect examples, and the recent Mongolian [...]
Lawrence of Arabia headlines the Royal Mint's latest six-coin First World War commemorative set The Royal Mint continues its extensive programme marking the centenary of the First World War. There's been a large mix of formats and designs produced by this British mint over the last half-decade, but one of the best for [...]
The ultimate gold hoarder Scrooge McDuck headlines his own gold and silver bullion coins It was early last year that the New Zealand Mint brought its flagship Disney licence to the bullion coin market when it launched its Steamboat Willie range. Depicting Mickey Mouse in his 1928 movie, the coin seemed pretty [...]
