AgAuNugget: Bank of China releases a silver coin to celebrate the New Year The first new coin from the Bank of China this year and in a twist I certainly couldn't have predicted, it has a snowman on it. For the third consecutive year the BOC has released a silver coin [...]
Let's start the year with a look at the Royal Mints 2017 themed circulating currency designs. In an impecable bit of timing, the Royal Mint has announced its new themed designs for British circulating and general commemorative currency for 2017. Obviously the big news is the arrival of an all-new bi-metallic [...]
Malaysia celebrates 50 years of FELCRA and its efforts to help its rural population A new coin from Malaysia started to ship on the 21 December and in line with much of the Bank Negara's output, is themed around government and its influence on the country. This time out it's an organisation [...]
Royal Australian Mint releases its fourth annual Sydney fireworks silver coin For the fourth year in succession the Royal Australian Mint is celebrating the city of Sydney and its bringing in of the New Year. Famous for its epic midnight firework display, and for being amongst the first major cities to move [...]
It's Halloween time and the Art Mint celebrate with third hit silver coin A cool little series from the Art Mint, a Paris-based coin producer most noted for its beautiful Mandala series of high-end silver coins, the Halloween series has hit its third birthday. Launching in 2014 with a [...]
The Royal Canadian Mints new coins feature multiple new techniques It looks like the Royal Canadian Mint are splitting up this months release run with a batch of new and unusual designs appearing in the middle of October. Long known for trying out different things on, or indeed in [...]
Royal Mint launches its first Christmas coin and it's a £20 silver one The latest £20 denominated silver coin from the Royal Mint is available to buy now. After coins commemorating the Queens 90th birthday and the iconic Welsh Dragon so far this year, this latest piece is a [...]
Fifty years since Australia changed to decimal currency commemorated Fifty years ago back in 1966, Australia moved from its old system of currency to a decimal one. The new and logical system is widely used in various incarnations around the world and Australia launched a new range of coins [...]
Bank of China roundup; Panda specials and the G20 conference Rounding up our roundup of the Bank of China's recent releases with a look at four sets of coins. All are in the mints new metric weight system which we can assume is now it for all the commemorative [...]
AgAuShoot: Olympian Cultural Heritage celebrated on Greek minigold coin We've been fortunate to borrow a coin that I've loved the look of since first seeing it, and thanks to Minted-UK have managed to use for an AgAuShoot. There are lots of coins released that have beautiful designs, but just [...]
