Perth-based coin producer Treasures of Oz, became popular through their excellent range of lunar coins and the associated 'Creatures of Myth and Legend' series. Heading into bullion territory with the Tuna and Shark silver coins, their name has become much more widely known over the last couple of years. They've always produced sets of coins that are a little [...]
A sport gaining popularity around the world, cricket has almost completed its 'Superbowl' with the holding of the ICC 2015 Cricket World Cup. Held every four years in different locations, this time around it's in Australia and New Zealand. There have already been a couple of pretty cool domed coins issued in celebration of the tournament, one from the [...]
As promised, here are the other nine coins from the ten released by the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) to celebrate the holding of the FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada. Held every four years, women's football has reached exceptional standards over the last few years and stadiums regularly sell out throughout the world, so this will certainly be a [...]
The next of the Royal Canadian Mint's extremely popular $20 for $20 coins has launched today and it celebrates one of the most important womens sporting events in the calendar, the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup. The range that pioneered the $ for $ concept now beginning to be embraced by other mints, the RCM releases have covered a [...]
Not strictly an AgAuNEWS item, being a bimetallic coin, we do make the odd exception for something interesting, and this is certainly that. We're pretty sure that most are familiar with using a coin in a game, as a token for example, but we're pretty sure that using a coin as the games board is a little more unusual. [...]
This year is the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, the precursor to Hockey Canada, and the Royal Canadian Mint has released a striking coin commemorating the occasion. Depicting the outline of a hockey player inside a maple leaf, each half of which has been enamelled in a different colour, the design is simple but very [...]
