The Perth Mint adds its 2026 issues to their popular bullion coin series, starts a new one, and heads to the world of sci-fi Purveyors of one of the widest, longest running, and popular ranges of bullion coins is back with new additions to three of its much loved nature-themed series. The Australian Swan, the Australian [...]
Germania Mint joins the prehistoric genre after a long absence with the Cave Lion, debuting the new Megafauna coin series While most of Europe is devoid of formidable apex predators today, that certainly wasn't the case for our ancestors, who had to deal with an impressive variety of capable predators. Chief amongst those was Panthera spelaea, [...]
German producer Allcollect has debuted a striking new square silver coin incorporating some unusual, contrasting gilded finishes to create a high-contrast look. The coin has been designed by Rui Vega, using artificial intelligence, usually a red flag for us, but there's no question this is a striking, symbolic representation of that most magnificent of the big cats. [...]
Our AgAuShoot of Germania Mint's impressive Witchcraft: Herbalist two-ounce high-relief coin I've finally managed to set up a small space in the office so we can get some actual coin images of our own on the site with a bit more regularity. As promised, we're starting off with the premium version of Germania Mint's excellent 2025 [...]
Mint XXI rounds out its first big release of the year with a stunning selection of nature coins, and the return of a classic We've already had a look at five new issues from Mint XXI's Winter Launch, those themed around history and mythology, and here we peek at five more. Three of them represent [...]
CIT's Winter Launch kicks off with one of our favourite subjects, the ever-classic dinosaur coin, and it's a beauty If you want to get in the good graces of AgAuNEWS, release a dinosaur coin, but make it a good one, and show us you actually expended some effort on its design and execution. We commented recently [...]
Malta and Germania Mint pool their history and artistic skills to produce the Maltese Ox pair of silver coins The Mediterranean Sea has one of the richest and most diverse histories in the world. The location of many of the greatest ancient civilisations, like Greece, Persia, Egypt, and Rome, and tumultuous other periods like the Crusades [...]
The Mint of Poland adds the Velociraptor to its lenticular-effect Dinosauria range of silver coins The Mint of Poland has issued the second in its six-coin 'Dinosauria' series, and following Tyrannosaurus Rex, we have another favourite from the Jurassic Park franchise, the Velociraptor. This small predator, barely bigger than a turkey, is believed to have hunted [...]
The first release in what we're expecting to be a busy year for Scottsdale Mint, is the 2025 entrant in one of their most attractive series. The Samoan Seahorse silver bullion series debuted for 2018, with the 2019 coins adding an antiqued variant with a far smaller mintage. In 2023, they added what they term [...]
Ants head out for an infinite walk on Le Grand Mint's M.C. Escher inspired Möbius strip silver coin It seems like insects have staked out a solid claim to numismatics at the start of 2026 with our second one of the day, and it's another quite unusual take on the subject. We've always liked Le Grand [...]
