Remembrance Day 2016. Alderney and the Royal Mint issue new silver coins Remembrance Day is fast approaching. Observed on 11th November to commemorate the 1918 end of hostilities of the First World War, the memorial is marked by Commonwealth countries to remember the members of their armed forces who [...]
Celebration time in Canada with a wave of new coin releases Coverage of another bumper release run from the Royal Canadian Mint continues with a look at coins marking events important to Canadians. The big event is next years huge anniversary; 150 years since Canada was confederated in the [...]
We've already covered the Brexit coins from CIT in previous posts, so we're not going to reiterate here. Suffice to say that the line art images released at launch, as above, don't do justice to the actual coin. Now real life images are available we thought it worth posting them as the coins have been extremely [...]
Another pair of Olympic coins will debut on 27 July, this time from the Polish national bank, Narodowy. Most Rio Olympic coins take a general view of the event, much like the Royal Australian Mints new coins, but this pair are very specific indeed. Poland has a long history with the modern olympics, and a pretty [...]
Let's get the easy stuff out of the way first. Coin Invest Trust (CIT) have followed up their surprise hit Brexit coin with a pair of gold versions carrying the same design. One is a 0.5g minigold coin, an increasingly popular format thanks in no small part to this Liechtenstein-based coin producer. It's cleanly struck with [...]
The big event happened yesterday. After weeks of campaigning between those that wanted Britain to leave the European Union and those that wanted to remain part of it, the vote ended with the leave campaign victorious. A decision either inspired or stupid depending on the point of view, the campaigning reached new lows of fear-mongering, lies [...]
A four-coin series that debuted last August and finished this April, we're rectifying our lack of coverage to date with some details of the whole of this unusual and interesting set of coins. Entitled the "Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Project", the Japan Mint has done a fine job with these. They were launched in four [...]
