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May, 2020

Royal Mint rounds out its celebration of Captain Cook’s seminal voyage of discovery with third £2 coin

By |2020-05-18T20:13:40+01:00May 18th, 2020|Categories: History, Gold, People, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

One of the most well known and well respected explorers in history, Captain James Cook has had a fair amount of representation in the numismatic world of late. This is helped in no small amount by his history of voyages to Australasia and the amount of mints currently issuing from the reason, but even up here in his homeland, the occasion is marked.The Royal Mint have just issued the third and last annual £2 coin [...]

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May, 2019

BATMAN VILLAINS SILVER FOILS (2019) by the New Zealand Mint

By |2021-10-30T21:25:14+01:00May 14th, 2019|Categories: , |

2019 BATMAN VILLAINS SILVER FOILS by the New Zealand Mint 2018 was a busy year for the New Zealand Mint as they continued to popularise the silver foil with a whole swathe of variously sized designs. They’ve obviously had some success with the relatively new type of coin as 2019 has seen the selection expand further. We can now add Batman Villains to the list. The mint has three [...]

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April, 2019

Tetris hits the silver coin world. How many tries to get it into the slot in the box?

By |2019-04-16T13:42:14+01:00April 16th, 2019|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Science, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Tetris hits the silver coin world. How many tries to get it into the slot in the box? A nice surprise last year, the Space Invaders 40th anniversary coin was the perfect commemoration of the groundbreaking early cult video-game. Using lenticular imagery to replicate the famous spaceship movement, and packaging in a very cool arcade cabinet style box, it's no surprise that it sold out at the [...]

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October, 2017

Royal Canadian Mint adds to its cutout nature coin series with the Whooping crane

By |2017-10-05T23:54:47+01:00October 6th, 2017|Categories: Nature, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

Royal Canadian Mint adds to its cutout nature coin series with the Whooping crane The second of a series of coins looking at Canadian wildlife, something the Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) does regularly, this particular range employs a couple of techniques to lift them away from the usual output of this prolific coin producer. While sticking with a cleanly-struck style and thus eschewing any form of colouring, [...]

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September, 2016

Celebration time in Canada with a wave of new coin releases

By |2016-11-05T06:30:29+00:00September 7th, 2016|Categories: Culture, Event, Gold, Inserts, Silver, Royal Canadian Mint|

Celebration time in Canada with a wave of new coin releases Coverage of another bumper release run from the Royal Canadian Mint continues with a look at coins marking events important to Canadians. The big event is next years huge anniversary; 150 years since Canada was confederated in the British North America Act. As you probably guessed, the maple leaf is the symbolic subject [...]

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August, 2016

MCI debuts first set of five Spirit of Africa silver coins featuring elephants

By |2016-11-05T06:30:36+00:00August 13th, 2016|Categories: Nature, Silver, Burkina Faso, MCI Mint|

German coin producer MCI-Mint have debuted a new set of nature coins that start off a new series called Spirit of Africa. The first set of these Burkina Faso issued coins (MCI-Mint has rights to issue for the African nation) feature the world's largest land animal, the African Elephant. As you'd expect from a producer with a long history of the finish, these are antiqued silver. The artwork on these five, [...]

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May, 2016

Massive trading card game Yu-Gi-Oh! gets its first silver coins from the NZ MInt

By |2016-11-05T06:30:59+00:00May 15th, 2016|Categories: Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Followers of the site, or commemorative coins in general, will know that the New Zealand Mint loves a licence, anything from Monopoly, Spongebob Squarepants, and The Terminator, to new and huge properties like Star Wars and Disney. After dipping their toes in the well of trading cards with a Magic the Gathering series, the mint is back with another huge name in that industry, Yu-Gi-Oh!, a brave decision given the MtG [...]

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February, 2015

BRILLIANT AUSTRIAN PREHISTORIC LIFE SERIES ENDS WITH FIFTH AND FINAL COIN

By |2021-01-25T15:27:54+00:00February 23rd, 2015|Categories: Nature, Austrian Mint, Austria, Silver|

Sadly, we've come to the end of the Austrian Mint's superb series of palaeontological coins, 'Prehistoric Life: Back From the Dead, with the release of the fifth coin, Quaternary: Life on the Ground. The first coin in this series was the subject of the first post I ever wrote for AgAuNEWS, so I've clearly been an admirer of these coins from day one. This last coin does nothing to diminish the respect I have for this [...]

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October, 2014

ALPHABET COIN COLLECTION (2015-2017) by the Royal Australian Mint

By |2021-10-30T21:49:36+01:00October 23rd, 2014|Categories: , |

There are few series of collectible coins around that number more than ten entrants, and even fewer that number more than twenty, Coin Invest Trusts 'World of Wonders' and 'Mountains and Flora' series immediately springing to mind. Even rarer are coin series with over twenty pieces in them that are released in one chunk, and the Royal Australian Mints (RAM) new 'Alphabet Coin Collection' series of frosted silver coins is [...]

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July, 2014

2015 YEAR OF THE GOAT: GUIDE TO THE LUNAR COINS

By |2016-11-05T06:30:02+00:00July 21st, 2014|

Despite the fact that we're starting this guide now, we've barely hit the half way mark of the Lunar Year of the Horse that started on 31 January 2014 and runs until the 19 February 2015. The key catalyst for this urge to get coins out as early as possible is the release in early September of the Perth Mints seminal Lunar Series II coins. Anybody releasing lunars in the September  to November [...]

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