This year has seen a number of commemorative coins that celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series. Most of these have found the approval of both collectors […]
New Releases
The Perth Mint has just released details for the Australian bullion coin program for 2017. The 2017 program details the release of no less than 26 bullion coins across five […]
Perth Mint Releases Australian 2017 Bullion Coin Program Details
The Austrian Mint is releasing a new series of innovative animal themed coins that, apart from having the Austrian Mint’s usually high design standards, have an interesting feature – they […]
The Bat 1st Coin In New Glow In The Dark ...
The Austrian Mint has released the final coin in the Federal Provinces series, that has also come to be known as the Austria Piece by Piece series or the Austria […]
Final Coin In Austrian Federal Provinces Series
New Releases Thailand issued a special commemorative 500 Bhat banknote in celebration of the Queen’s 7th cycle birthday. The banknotes started circulation on the 11th of Augusts 2016. A total […]
Banknote News Roundup – August 2016
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 […]
Australia Remembers The Battle of Long Tan on 50th Anniversary
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 […]
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. 2016 Star Wars […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
Australian Classic Cars Remembered on New Coin Series
By now the New Zealand Mint is very familiar with licensed products. They have issued a wide variety of Disney themed coins for quite a few years now and their […]
New Zealand Releases Sherlock Themed Silver Coin Set
The Frozen – Magic of the Northern Lights Disney silver coin collection is already in it’s third issue with the Olaf coin having been released just this week. The previous […]
Snowman On 3rd Disney’s Frozen Silver Coin
The Great Migrations series of silver coins from the New Zealand Mint is proving to be a very interesting new series of themed collectors coins. The second only coin in […]
Monarch Butterfly Flutters onto Great Migrations Silver Series
Lithuania has a long standing tradition of issuing commemorative silver coins to celebrate the Olympic games, dating back to 1996 when the first 50 Litas Silver coin was issued. Every […]
Lithuanian Silver Coin for 2016 Olympic Games
Portugal has now issued it’s second circulating commemorative two Euro coin for 2016. The first coin was issued earlier in the year by the Portuguese Mint(Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda / […]
Portugal Issues 2nd Commemorative €2 Coin for 2016
The Royal Spanish Mint(Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre) has released their 2016 entry to the commemorative two Euro coin program. This also marks the seventh coin by the Royal […]
Segovia Aqueduct on New Spanish €2 Coin
Spain has released a new silver commemorative coin that celebrates 300 years since the creation of the Spanish postal service. The Royal Spanish Mint(Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre) is […]
Spain Celebrates 300 Yrs of Postal Service
Transnistria has added two additional coins to their “Military Glory Memorials of Transnistria” series. The series is a relatively a new one, the first coin was only issued in 2015 […]
New War Memorial Coins From Transnistria
Maintaining their busy release schedule, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (also known as the Bank of Russia) has released two new silver commemorative coins this month. The first […]
Silver Coin Marks 450th Year for Russian City
The Bank of Russia is seeing a busy week with the release of no less than seven new commemorative coins across four different series. Two of these are silver commemorative […]
5oz Silver Coin added to Treasury of World Culture Series ...
In addition to two new silver commemorative coins, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is also releasing several circulating commemorative coins this month. Amongst these are no less than […]
Russia Adds 3 New Coins to Ancient Towns Series
Olympic fever is starting to spread, with the 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympic games just around the corner, and the Royal Australian Mint is certainly doing it’s best to fan […]
More Olympic Coins from Royal Australian Mint
The latest commemorative coin from the Italian Mint(Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato) commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of renowned Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce in 1866 Benedetto Croce […]