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18Mar 24

UPDATED: A new site update, with a few days off

By |March 18th, 2024|Categories: News Nuggets, Site Update|0 Comments

UPDATED: A new site update, with a few days off Hi All, We're going to be off for a few days, as, after a longer than expected wait, I have my second eye operation today. Hopefully, that will see things improve for me (it's all a bit depressing, to be honest), and I can finally get on with the coin photography for our AgAuShoots, and some other things I've been putting off. [...]

18Mar 24

The Royal Mint returns to the Star Wars universe with a second four-issue series of proof coins, and all new bullion bars

By |March 18th, 2024|Categories: Bullion, Movies & TV, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint|0 Comments

The Royal Mint returns to the Star Wars universe with a second four-issue series of proof coins, and all new bullion bars Last July, the Royal Mint surprised us with a new Star Wars coin collection, a franchise which had been associated with the New Zealand Mint for almost a decade. Consisting of four designs, each depicting a pair of characters, they were available in a choice of three gold, [...]

15Mar 24

Myths and legends, both old and new, are the focus of new releases from the Mint of Poland

By |March 15th, 2024|Categories: Culture, History, Coloured, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|0 Comments

Myths and legends, both old and new, are the focus of new releases from the Mint of Poland Just as we did a couple of days ago with the New Zealand Mint, here, we're playing a bit of catch-up with some of the Mint of Poland's latest releases, specifically, their more ambitious designs. This mint is especially well known for its two-ounce, antique finished, high-relief coins in the mythology genre, [...]

13Mar 24

The New Zealand Mint expands its pop-culture ranges, and ventures outside that genre with cowboys and tarot

By |March 13th, 2024|Categories: Culture, History, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|0 Comments

The New Zealand Mint expands its pop-culture ranges, and ventures outside that genre with cowboys and tarot It's been a while since we did a good round-up of the New Zealand Mints coins, so here's a long overdue catch-up on a more varied selection than they've had of late, encompassing some more ambitious pop-culture coins, and some outside of that genre as well. The biggest releases are for the mint's [...]

12Mar 24

Treasure Island, a tale of adventure, pirates, and a parrot, inspires T&S Coin’s new silver coin release

By |March 12th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Gilded, Silver, Cameroon, T&S Coins|0 Comments

Treasure Island, a tale of adventure, pirates, and a parrot, inspires T&S Coin's new silver coin release One of the most famous adventure stories of all time, Treasure Island was written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in the early 1880s, and has been a staple [...]

12Mar 24

NASA doesn’t want the dinosaurs fate to be our own. Melbourne Coins new issue showcases the DART tech designed to safeguard Earth

By |March 12th, 2024|Categories: Science, Silver, Melbourne Coin Co., Niue Island|0 Comments

NASA doesn't want the dinosaurs fate to be our own. Melbourne Coins new issue showcases the DART tech designed to safeguard Earth Scientist's mutter the word 'Chicxulub' with a mixture of fear and awe. Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid, somewhere between 10-15 km in [...]

11Mar 24

Scottsdale Mint has been busy with additions to their Marlin, Mermaid, and Alien bullion coin programs

By |March 11th, 2024|Categories: Coloured, Gold, Nature, Science, Ruthenium / Rhodium, Silver, Cayman Islands, Ghana, Samoa, Scottsdale Mint|0 Comments

Scottsdale Mint has been busy with additions to their Marlin, Mermaid, and Alien bullion coin programs Prolific bullion coin producer, Scottsdale Mint, has a catalogue of different series that puts most of the competition to shame. Everything from religion, through science-fiction, to, most popularly, nature, has [...]

08Mar 24

The Royal Mint launches its eagerly anticipated 2024 Britannia proof range and it’s a beautiful piece by a French artist

By |March 8th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|0 Comments

The Royal Mint launches its eagerly anticipated 2024 Britannia proof range and it's a beautiful piece by a French artist One of the highlights of the numismatic calendar, certainly for the more classical-leaning collector, has been the Royal Mint's proof Britannia range. The series split [...]

07Mar 24

A new Zodiac series, a snake-haired Medusa, a zombie samurai, and a nautical cat showcase MK and The Gold Village’s imagination

By |March 7th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Nature, Silver, Cameroon, Gabon, Mint of MK, Niue Island, The Gold Village|0 Comments

A new Zodiac series, a snake-haired Medusa, a zombie samurai, and a nautical cat showcase MK and The Gold Village's imagination Mint of MK and The Gold Village continue their rapid expansion with another selection of new issues. You'd expect there to be either increased [...]

06Mar 24

Numiscollect expands its Pointillism-style ‘Dot-Art’ coin series with a clever look at India’s iconic Taj Mahal

By |March 6th, 2024|Categories: Architecture, Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Palau, Numiscollect|0 Comments

Numiscollect expands its Pointillism-style 'Dot-Art' coin series with a clever look at India's iconic Taj Mahal Developed by Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat and Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Signac, both Frenchmen working in Paris in the mid-1880’s, Pointillism was an artistic technique that built up an image [...]

05Mar 24

Deadly & Dangerous 19: Bluebottle proof silver coin (2024 Downies/Perth Mint)

By |March 5th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Gold, Nature, Silver, Downies, Niue Island, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|0 Comments

One of the longest running series we've ever covered at AgAuNEWS, Deadly and Dangerous debuted in 2006 with the Red Back Spider, a coin that went on to garner enormous interest on the secondary market. It was a striking coin, but despite interest in the series reducing somewhat, [...]

04Mar 24

Le Grand Mint brings its esoteric sense of style to their debut selection of 2024 issues in bullion and proof ranges

By |March 4th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Lunar Calendar, Gilded, Nature, Silver, Cameroon, Le Grand Mint, Liberia, Niue Island|0 Comments

Le Grand Mint brings its esoteric sense of style to their debut selection of 2024 issues in bullion and proof ranges Over the last few years, German producer, Le Grand Mint, has built itself a reputation for some quite unusual designs, full of detail, and quite [...]

27Feb 24

Grand Admiral Thrawn & Poison Ivy Chibi silver coins (2024 New Zealand Mint)

By |February 27th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|0 Comments

Our updating of various Coin Series Profiles continues today, with another pair of coins added to the New Zealand Mint's copious, and quirky range of pop-culture parodies. For those unaware, Chibi is based on the Japanese art-style called super-deformed, whereby a character is depicted with a huge, [...]

27Feb 24

Enduring Soldiers 17: Zygmunt Szendzielarz ‘Lupaszka’ silver coin (2024 National Bank of Poland)

By |February 27th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Military, People, Silver, Narodowy Bank, Poland|0 Comments

A long-running series from the National Bank of Poland, 'Enduring Soldiers Accursed by the Communists' is a celebration of the freedom fighters that gave their lives fighting the Soviet Union immediately after the end of the Second World War. Today sees the issue of the 17th coin [...]

27Feb 24

Armoured Vehicles 09: The M26 Pershing gold and silver coins (2024 Czech Mint)

By |February 27th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Military, Gold, Science, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|0 Comments

It's a favourite subject of mine, so it's fair to say the Czech Mint's three-year, twelve-coin look at the tanks of the Second World War, was always going to get a Coin Series Profile, and that is indeed the case. The coins have been released at the rate [...]

26Feb 24

Music Day continues with CIT and MDM heading into heavier rock with Iron Maiden and Motorhead

By |February 26th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Banknote / Foil, Coloured, Barbados, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Cook Islands, MDM|0 Comments

Music Day continues with CIT and MDM heading into heavier rock with Iron Maiden and Motorhead We started the day with a look at the Royal Mint's new George Michael coin, but the coin world is no stranger to music, with hard rock/heavy metal being [...]

26Feb 24

The Royal Mint’s Music Legends proof coin range continues its look at icons of British Music with George Michael

By |February 26th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Gold, People, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|0 Comments

The Royal Mint's Music Legends proof coin range continues its look at icons of British Music with George Michael "One of the bestselling musicians of all time, George Michael transitioned from a teen heartthrob as part of pop duo WHAM! Into a global superstar as a [...]

23Feb 24

The Lithuanian Mint releases two new coins for the heart and soul. Essentia: Cor, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

By |February 23rd, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Nature, Silver, Lithuanian Mint, Niue Island|0 Comments

The Lithuanian Mint releases two new coins for the heart and soul. Essentia: Cor, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. One of the more inventive European mints when it comes to national producers, the Lithuanian Mint has a wide range of issues for the Pacific island [...]

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