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May, 2015

POIGNANT PAIR OF CANADIAN COINS REMEMBERS THE POEM, IN FLANDERS FIELDS

By |2016-11-05T06:32:12+00:00May 1st, 2015|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Coloured, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

Along with the British Royal Mint and the various Australian and New Zealand mints, the Royal Canadian Mint have been at the forefront when designing and releasing coins commemorating the centenary of events of the First World War. With several releases already under their belt, and no doubt many more from now until the end of 2018, it will be increasingly difficult to theme coins in a unique way. This new pair take one [...]

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March, 2015

ANZAC, MARRIAGE AND EAGLES FILL OUT PERTHS MARCH SCHEDULE

By |2016-11-05T06:32:25+00:00March 3rd, 2015|Categories: Culture, History, Coloured, Gold, Nature, Australia, Silver, Perth Mint|

A pretty good mix this month from collector favourites, the Perth Mint. We've already covered the 2015 Australian Sovereign, and the coins here represent the bulk of the rest for March 2015. The ANZAC commemorations continue with a poignant ¼oz gold coin depicting the grief over the loss of a fallen comrade, and a rare one-kilo silver coin celebrating the sacrifices made by ANZAC troops by listing out the battles in which they've fought. [...]

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October, 2021

Italian coin remembers their fallen in the First World War on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier’s centenary

By |2021-10-25T15:08:18+01:00October 25th, 2021|Categories: History, Coloured, Military, Silver, IPZS Italy, Italy|

Italian coin remembers their fallen in the First World War on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier's centenary It's fair to say that the Italian Front in the First World War is one of those forgotten battlefields that just isn't well known outside of Italy. It was, however, an especially harsh one, often taking place at high Alpine altitudes in bitter weather against the waning Austi-Hungarian Empire. While Italy's entry [...]

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April, 2021

Cook Islands impressive ‘Mythological Weapons’ series wraps up with a fifth release, Nezha, the Third Lotus Prince

By |2021-04-19T20:17:50+01:00April 19th, 2021|Categories: Art & Literature, Silver, Cook Islands, Numiscollect|

Cook Islands impressive 'Mythological Weapons' series wraps up with a fifth release, Nezha, the Third Lotus Prince Numiscollect are wrapping up their striking 'Mythological Weapons' antiqued, two-ounce silver coin series with a fifth and final release. The series oicks out some of the legendary weapons and artifcats used by the gods and heroes in the various ancient myths from around the world. The series started in 2017 with Mjolnir - Thor's [...]

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March, 2020

For the fifth and final time, the Royal Mint brings Peter Rabbit to its 50p coin range

By |2020-03-19T02:29:00+00:00March 19th, 2020|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

For the fifth and final time, the Royal Mint brings Peter Rabbit to its 50p coin range One of the first Royal Mint licenced fifty pence coins to generate a buying frenzy, the debut Peter Rabbit coin, released in 2016, sold out its 15,000 mintage in barely a week. Three other character coins were released through that year, and in 2017 they returned with four new designs. Even [...]

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February, 2020

Chinese history and mythology comes to the fore with two new issues from the Mint of Poland

By |2021-05-21T21:06:55+01:00February 8th, 2020|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Gilded, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

Chinese history and mythology comes to the fore with two new issues from the Mint of Poland Two new designs from the Mint of Poland's expansive mythology range mark the start of series looking at China's long past. One delves into the realms of mythology, and one into the far more interesting true historical record. Both employ the mints signature 2oz silver, ultra high relief format and [...]

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September, 2019

Samoan domed silver coin commemorates 500 years since Magellan set sail to circumnavigate the globe

By |2019-09-07T00:13:21+01:00September 6th, 2019|Categories: History, People, Silver, Commonwealth Mint, Samoa|

Samoan domed coin commemorates 500 years since Magellan set sail to circumnavigate the globe One of the great endeavours of human exploration, Ferdinand Magellan's expedition of 1519 that circumnavigated the globe for the first time. While the famous explorer died on the voyage, it's become, perhaps unfairly, his achievement, rather than those that actually did complete the whole journey. Nevertheless, this is certainly a historical event worthy of numismatic [...]

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March, 2019

Peter Rabbit is back at the Royal Mint with new coins for the fourth year running

By |2019-03-19T17:45:38+00:00March 19th, 2019|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Peter Rabbit is back at the Royal Mint with new coins for the fourth year running The bunny is back for the fourth consecutive annual release of coins celebrating the work of Beatrix Potter. Four coins were first launched to an extremely eager buying public in 2016 and following that with an even more frantic launch in 2017 with four new entrants, and a third set of [...]

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January, 2019

One small week for mankind: US Mint celebrates America’s 1969 moon landing with four domed coins

By |2019-01-20T17:33:00+00:00January 21st, 2019|Categories: Gold, Science, Silver, United States, US Mint|

One small week for mankind: US Mint celebrates America's 1969 moon landing with four domed coins It's fifty years since Neil Armstrong stepped out of the lunar lander and onto the surface of the moon - the first human being to set foot on a planetary body other than Earth. This week we'll have a look at some of the coins coming out in celebration and as [...]

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April, 2018

The Royal Mint concludes its five-year World War I commemorations with poignant Armistice coins

By |2018-04-09T15:06:05+01:00April 9th, 2018|Categories: Event, History, Gilded, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

The Royal Mint concludes its five-year World War I commemorations with poignant Armistice coins The Royal Mint are starting to wrap up their commemorations of the First World War after an extensive five-year program starting in 2014. This year marks the centenary of the end of the 'war to end all wars', as it was erroneously known, and that end is known as the Armistice. Commemorative coins [...]

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Perth Mint releases a good selection for April including some fine antiqued coins

By |2018-04-04T15:53:42+01:00April 4th, 2018|Categories: Event, History, Coloured, Gold, Nature, Australia, People, Silver, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|

Perth Mint releases a good selection for April including some fine antiqued coins A better than usual mix from the Perth Mint this month with some new additions to ongoing series, some high-end variants to their iconic bullion coins, and some new designs. There are also a couple of other interesting coins, some commissioned, that we'll look at elsewhere and the the Ready Player One movie coins that [...]

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August, 2017

Poland remembers the fallen of the 1982 anti-communist uprising in Lubin with new silver coin

By |2017-08-18T15:21:01+01:00August 18th, 2017|Categories: History, Coloured, Silver, Narodowy Bank, Poland|

Poland remembers the fallen of the 1982 anti-communist uprising in Lubin with new silver coin The National Bank of Poland continues to commemorate Polands tumultuous post-war history with a coin remembering the anti-communist uprisings of 35 years ago. Part of a wave of protests and demonstarations around the freedom movement Solidarity, Lubin wasn't a particularly large example, but the response of the government forces made it stand [...]

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July, 2017

The horror of the Warsaw Wola and Ochota massacres is remembered on new Polish silver coin

By |2017-07-18T09:44:03+01:00July 18th, 2017|Categories: History, Silver, Narodowy Bank, Poland|

The horror of the Warsaw Wola and Ochota massacres is remembered on new Polish silver coin The Polish National Bank (NBP) is launching a new coin on the 27th of July to commemorate the fallen in one of the Second World War's worst massacres. The Polish people certainly took the brunt of atrocities perpetrated on the Eastern Front, from the Katyn massacre of the Polish officer corp [...]

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The Royal Mint launches a five-ounce First World War centenary coin in gold and silver

By |2017-07-06T00:55:04+01:00July 6th, 2017|Categories: History, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

The Royal Mint launches a five-ounce First World War centenary coin in gold and silver The Royal Mint continues its extensive five-year programme of coins being issued to commemorate the centenary of the Great War with the launch of the fourth of five annual five-ounce coins. While there has been a rare kilo-sized coin in the programme, this range here could realistically be said to be the [...]

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Canada’s ‘Big Ben’, the Peace Tower Clock is immortalised on a fine five-ounce silver coin

By |2017-07-05T14:23:43+01:00July 5th, 2017|Categories: Architecture, Inserts, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

Canada's 'Big Ben', the Peace Tower Clock is immortalised on a fine five-ounce silver coin It's a century since the Great War was raging and the numismatic world has been marking the numerous occasions with a wide variety of silver and gold coins. Battles, personalities, locations and equipment have all been showcased, but there's an underlying theme of remembrance to remind us all of how truly horrifying [...]

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