Fifty years ago on 18 August 1966, 108 Australian and New Zealand troops encountered a force of more than 2000 Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers in the rubber plantation of […]
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Last month the New Zealand Mint launched their new Warriors of History silver coin series with the Samurai coin. This month the series continues with the second installment, which is […]
Vikings Storm Warriors of History Silver Coin Series
The New Zealand Mint has released three new coins in their officially licensed Star Wars: The Force Awakens coin collection, doubling the number of coins in the new series.Star Wars: […]
Star Wars-The Force Awakens Coin Collection Adds 3 More Silver ...
The classic Star Wars coin collection from the New Zealand Mint is continuing this month with the release of the fourth design in the series : R2-D2.R2-D2 is the fourth […]
R2-D2 Joins Classic Star Wars Coin Collection
The third coin in third coin in the Presidents of Finland coin series has just been released by the Mint of Finland. The coin pays homage to the third President […]
Presidents of Finland Series Continues with 3rd Coin
The fifth coin in the Kings of the Continents series from the new Zealand Mint has just been released and it is the first coin that covers South America, and […]
Jaguar Pounces on Kings of the Continents Silver Series
It is an exiting time to be a numismatist, coin collectors are literally spoilt for choice these days. With so many technological advances being made in the minting and finishing […]
New High Relief 1oz Silver Skull Shaped Coin
The latest collector's coin from Latvia celebrates the countries cultural and artistic heritage in a new silver coin.The coin is in fact a reproduction of the renowned porcelain art from […]
Plate Shaped Coin Celebrates Latvian Artistic Heritage
The United States Mint has released the 2016 Presidential Dollars Three-Coin Sets. The two sets, one for the Denver Mint and one for the Philadelphia Mint, each contain the last […]
Final Presidential 3 Coin Set from US Mint
Hungary is celebrating 70 years since that nation's national currency, the Forint, was first introduced in 1946. To commemorate this milestone the Hungarian National Bank(Magyar Nemzeti Bank) has tasked the […]
Hungary Celebrates 70th Anniversary of National Currency
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation, better known as simply the Bank of Russia, has released a new series of circulating commemorative coins that has managed to spark quite […]
New Russian Liberation Coin Series Sparks Controversy
After more than forty years the British Pobjoy Mint and the Isle of man will be parting ways. This comes after the Isle of man announced a reduction in the […]
Pobjoy Mint Will No Longer Mint Isle of Man Coins
Earlier this year year the Royal Australian Mint released a three coin set that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Australian children's TV show “Play School”. That larger theme of […]