The 2018 XXI Commonwealth Games is in Australia and a new coin pair launches from the starters blocks With the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games out of the way, the numismatic world of sports is looking to smaller events to commemorate. The sport of Rugby has been a relatively popular [...]
Canadian domed coin trio showcases football and the Planet Earth After an unusual early mid-month release last week, the Royal Canadian Mint ploughs on through yet another bumper release schedule. It appears that the gimmicky type of coin is in the ascendant there, so we're seeing plenty of new [...]
Another Olympic coin has debuted and from one of the least prolific issuers of precious metal commemorative coins, Estonia. Usually only issuing at most a couple of coins every year, this is their second of 2016. The bank, Eeesti Pank, usually issues a coin for the summer and winter olympics, having done so in 2012 for [...]
Not one of the most high profile series from the Mint of Poland, these coins are sports-themed. Unlike most sets from this mint, this one is quite loosely put together, carrying a similar basic design but differing in weight and release date. It also seems focused more on sporting events than on the sports themselves. First [...]
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 [...]
There doesn't seem to be a flood of Summer Olympic coins this time around, but what has been released has seemed popular enough. Case in point is the new trilogy of coins from the Royal Australian Mint. Released less than two weeks ago, they've already sold out, helped no doubt by the Aussie love of sporting [...]
The rise of the domed coin continues with the second big release in little over a week. After the new Northern Sky coin from the Royal Australian Mint (RAM) launched last week, it's the turn of fellow Commonwealth country Canada to join in with the Royal Canadian Mints(RCM) first coloured domed coin. This one goes back [...]
From a previous release schedule of around 3 coins per year, it looks like the Central Bank of Malaysia is ramping up the numbers, having already launched four coins so far this year, three of them in the last two months. We've only covered one Malaysian commemorative coin to date, a nice silver coin featuring the [...]
No doubt there will be many coins featuring this years Summer Olympics, a couple have already surfaced, but the New Zealand Post have jumped in with a pair of their own and look to have done a good job. Struck in fine silver or fine gold, both with some selective colouring (more so on the silver), [...]
Long considered one of England's greatest sporting triumphs, the 1966 FIFA World Cup final was a classic even by the standards of this long running tournament. Most remembered for Englands controversial third goal, argued not to have crossed the line, an argument that persists to this day, the match against West Germany was watched by a [...]
