Nugget: Royal Mint release proof precious metal versions of its new King Canute coin We covered the Royal Mints new themed circulating currency last week and now the first of them has already surfaced in proof precious metal form. King Canute (or Cnut) was king of Denmark, England and Norway (the [...]
The continent-spanning Trans-Australian Railway's centenary is commemorated on new gold and silver coins. When you get a continent as large as Australia, getting across it is never going to be easy. When that continent isn't the most hospitable place on earth, with only the coastal regions having significant population centres, the [...]
Ares: God of War kicks off the Mint of Polands latest high relief silver coin series. After our early teaser image generated plenty of interest, we've now recieved some full renders of the coin reverse and obverse faces. The first coin in a new series from Numiartis and the Mint of Poland, [...]
Movie classic The Wizard of Oz gets a Swarovski adorned silver coin with smart minting and Swarovski. With the recent resurgence and expansion of choice in movie and television themed numismatics, it comes as no surprise to see this rich vein of subjects mined deeper with properties picked from further back [...]
New Zealands annual $5 silver coin features a native bird, the Laughing Owl Just once a year the New Zealand Post issues a $5 silver commemorative coin and like the Royal Australian Mint's Kangaroo series, they're themed into smaller chunks to give the long-running and open-ended series some kind of structure for [...]
John Fitzgerald Kennedy centenary commemorated with a PT-109 themed silver coin from the Solomon Islands. While it's the Royal Canadian Mint and the Perth Mint that usually produce and strike limited run silver coins for some of the bigger bullion dealers, other mints sometimes dabble. One that does occasionally is the Royal [...]
The Royal Australian Mint debuts its latest Seasons Change Kangaroo coin in two finishes for 2017. Well into its third decade of release, the Royal Australian Mint's (RAM) Kangaroo Series of silver coins has long become a perennial fixture in the numismatic calendar. Over that time we've seen a multitude of [...]
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 [...]
Beautiful Marianne is the latest French numismatic icon to be celebrated Who is Marianne? In the way that Britain has Britannia, the US has Lady Liberty, and Switzerland has Helvetia, France has Miarianne. The personification of nationhood, these strong females represent the strength and values of country. Obviously these will be strong contenders for numismatic [...]
History of Polish Coin series continues with the 16th century Thaler of Stephen Bathory. Another one of those fine coin series that simply doesn't get the recognition it deserves is this excellent one from the Narodowy Bank Poland (NBP), the Polish National Bank. Called History of Polish Coin, it looks at the [...]
