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December, 2022

Bullion round-up 12: Australia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Samoa, and the UK, add new coins in our last collation of 2022

By |2023-12-07T01:41:58+00:00December 19th, 2022|Categories: Bullion roundup, Bullion, Bullion Round, Gold, Australia, Silver, Cambodia, Cameroon, Germania Mint, Le Grand Mint, LPM HK, Perth Mint, Samoa, Royal Australian Mint, United Kingdom|

Bullion round-up 12: Australia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Samoa, and the UK, add new coins in our last collation of 2022 Our twelfth bullion round-up was due to go live late on Friday, but a refresh to the site's theme framework meant our attention was occupied elsewhere. It comes with quite a few tweaks, which we'll try to use next year. It doesn't help these collations are time-consuming to assemble, but we're here [...]

December, 2021

LIMITED NON-CORE BULLION COIN SERIES by the Perth Mint

By |2023-10-11T22:07:23+01:00December 6th, 2021|Categories: , , , |

LIMITED NON-CORE BULLION COIN SERIES by the Perth Mint I think few would disagree with the observation that the last few years has seen a virtual explosion in new bullion coin releases. Whereas we used to have a base of big guns, like the American Eagle and the Maple Leaf, and a scattering of smaller mintage coins (Somali Elephant, Rwandan African Ounce, etc), we now have a huge selection [...]

November, 2021

The Royal Mint kicks off its epic ‘Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Collection’ with an all-new design for the classic Sovereign

By |2021-11-15T01:58:50+00:00November 15th, 2021|Categories: Culture, Gold, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

The Royal Mint kicks off its epic 'Queen's Platinum Jubilee Collection' with an all-new design for the classic Sovereign We rarely get excited when a new Sovereign coin drops, just as we don't when the annual Maple Leaf, Philharmonic or American Eagle release comes around, but occasionally, the Royal Mint does something to commemorate a royal event, and 2022 is one such time. Normally carrying that beautiful St George slaying the Dragon [...]

October, 2021

MDM Week (4/5): A homage to the world’s major bullion coin icons, all merged into a kilo silver cube

By |2021-10-07T23:56:34+01:00October 7th, 2021|Categories: Culture, Politics & Finance, Silver, Gibraltar, MDM|

MDM Week: A homage to the world's major bullion coin icons, all merged into a kilo silver cube An unusual piece for todays catch-up of MDM releases, this is one of the producers many dabbles into the geometric dimensional coin genre - those coins that keep a basic geometric shape (cube, bar, pyramid, sphere, etc.), but dive head first into significant depth as well. It doesn't get more dimensional than a [...]

April, 2020

Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition to the NW Passage is remembered 175 years later on a superb Canadian silver coin

By |2020-04-07T23:31:33+01:00April 7th, 2020|Categories: History, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition to the NW Passage is remembered 175 years later on a superb Canadian silver coin We can always expect a smattering of coins featuring the iconic maple leaf that so epitomises Canada's national identity being released every month, as well as something gimmicky in an attempt to push coin design forward, but in amongst all that there's always a real gem. In [...]

August, 2019

ANA 2019: Canada adds the fourth issue to its Predator series of silver bullion coins

By |2019-08-15T13:39:02+01:00August 15th, 2019|Categories: News Nuggets, Bullion, Nature, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

ANA 2019: Canada adds the fourth issue to its Predator series of silver bullion coins The fourth issue in the RCM's Predator series has been launched at the ANA show and carries on the theme of leaping carnivores from the Canadian ecosystem. Following the 2016 Cougar, 2017 Lynx, and 2018 Wolf designs, this 500k mintage 1oz silver coin continues a long line of relatively small mintage nature coins [...]

June, 2019

D-DAY 75TH Anniversary coins in silver and gold

By |2019-09-08T23:34:54+01:00June 7th, 2019|Categories: |

D-Day 75th Anniversary coins in silver and gold Codenamed Operation Neptune, the largest seaborne invasion in history and the start of Operation Overlord took place on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 when a huge Allied force began the liberation of German-occupied France. The culmination of a years planning, and even then, it was almost scuppered by the weather, D-Day encompassed an assault on five beaches – Gold, Juno and Sword by [...]

The greatest seaborne assault in history was 75 years ago today. A look at the coins issued to mark it.

By |2019-06-07T07:42:05+01:00June 6th, 2019|Categories: History, Coloured, Military, Gilded, Gold, Silver, Canada, France, Gibraltar, Niue Island, Tanzania, United Kingdom|

The greatest seaborne assault in history was 75 years ago today. A look at the coins issued to mark it. Codenamed Operation Neptune, the largest seaborne invasion in history and the start of Operation Overlord took place on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 when a huge Allied force began the liberation of German-occupied France. The culmination of a years planning, and even then, it was almost scuppered by [...]

November, 2018

Barbados Trident bullion coin back for 2018 in gold and silver one-ounce form

By |2018-11-20T12:20:16+00:00November 20th, 2018|Categories: News Nuggets, Bullion, Gold, Barbados, Silver, Scottsdale Mint|

Barbados Trident bullion coin back for 2018 in gold and silver one-ounce form 2018 BARBADOS TRIDENT Back, and just sneaking its way into 2018, is Scottsdale Mint's Trident bullion coin. Issued for the Caribbean island of Barbados, the coin is available is once again available in one-ounce 0.999 silver, and one-ounce 0.9999 gold formats. There are no real changes from last years debut of the coin other than the [...]

April, 2018

The Aliens are coming!! Canada launches glow in the dark coin for its most famous UFO sighting

By |2018-04-11T23:15:54+01:00April 11th, 2018|Categories: Event, Coloured, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

The Aliens are coming!! Canada launches glow in the dark coin for its most famous UFO sighting As usual, the Royal Canadian Mint has another extendsive selection of new coins this month including additions to ongoing series, some quirky new issues, and the obligatory maple Leaf themed releases. The unobtrusive coin we're looking at here would normally have drifted under the radar as just another release, and [...]

Cayman Islands Marlin bullion coin back unchanged for 2018 but with a gold version in tow

By |2018-04-03T12:16:11+01:00April 3rd, 2018|Categories: News Nuggets, Bullion, Gold, Nature, Silver, Cayman Islands, Scottsdale Mint|

Cayman Islands Marlin bullion coin back unchanged for 2018 but with a gold version in tow Scottsdale Mint continues to expand its range of legal tender bullion coins with a reissue of the Cayman Islands Marlin silver bullion coin from 2017. No changes to the design from last years coin, but for the first time a gold variant is added the line-up, joinng such other recent [...]

February, 2018

Pobjoy follows lasts years debut Pegasus silver bullion coin with a new design for 2018

By |2018-02-13T10:03:26+00:00February 13th, 2018|Categories: Art & Literature, Bullion, Silver, British Virgin Islands, Pobjoy Mint|

Pobjoy follows lasts years debut Pegasus silver bullion coin with a new design for 2018 The British Pobjoy Mint has become increasingly active in the limited run silver bullion coin market of late, more so since the Isle of Man issues went elsewhere. One of the first of the new issues was a coin depicting Britannia and Pegasus that carried the name of the British Virgin Islands. [...]

Royal Canadian Mint introduces Mintshield to reduce white spots on its silver bullion coins

By |2018-02-02T15:11:29+00:00February 2nd, 2018|Categories: News Nuggets, Information, Royal Canadian Mint|

Royal Canadian Mint introduces Mintshield to reduce white spots on its silver bullion coins In what can only be welcome news to the myriad numbers of collectors of their bullion coins, the Royal Canadian Mint has announced a new technique to significantly reduce the appearance of the dreaded white spots. A difficult and not fully understood process, the formation of white spots has annoyed collectors for years, so here's hoping [...]

January, 2018

New bullion coins for 2018 in gold, silver and platinum expand collector choices further

By |2018-01-05T15:17:12+00:00January 5th, 2018|Categories: Bullion, Movies & TV, Australia, Gold, Nature, Platinum, Silver, Canada, Chad, Perth Mint, Royal Canadian Mint, Scottsdale Mint|

New bullion coins for 2018 in gold, silver and platinum expand collector choices further While bullion coin numbers have dropped through 2017, the sheer number of different options shows little sign of slowing down. There's been a few new releases lately, so we thought we'd compile them together. Platinum is making a welcome appearance on a new coin and there's gold and silver to choose from as [...]

October, 2017

Mint of Gdansk produces collectors boxes for the Queens Beasts bullion coin ranges

By |2017-10-18T16:16:03+01:00October 18th, 2017|Categories: Accessories, Quick Look|

Mint of Gdansk produces collectors boxes for the Queens Beasts bullion coin ranges One of the best of the modern bullion coin series, the Royal Mint's Queens Beasts has proven popular with collectors because of its superb design and defined range. A series of ten designs based around iconic British symbols, the Jody-Clark penned coins have ably stepped into the gap left by the Britannia now having [...]

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