Finland’s second and final commemorative two Euro coin for 2016 has now been released and the coin is dedicated to honouring one of Finland’s greatest philosophers – Georg Henrik von […]
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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
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
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
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
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
3 Following on Britain’s ;landmark decision, last week, to exit the European Union, the Cook Islands issued a commemorative silver coin to mark the event. The coin was a resounding success […]
New Pair of Brexit Gold Coins
1 The battle of the Somme(sometimes referred to as the Somme Offensive) was contested between British, French and German troops between July 1 1916 and November 18th 1916, and is to […]
Royal Mint Remembers the Battle of the Somme
Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s release of the 2016 Platinum Eagles, the US Mint is today releasing the Nancy Reagan First Spouse Gold coins. The First Spouse Gold […]
Nancy Reagan First Spouse Gold Coin
The United States 2017 silver $1 coin will recognize the 100th anniversary of the founding of Lions Clubs International. It was during the 99th annual convention of the charitable organization, […]
2017 Lions Club Silver $1 Designs Unveiled
The vote is in and it looks like Britain is out. On June 23rd, 2016, the United Kingdom held a historic referendum in which they chose to leave the European […]
New Coin Marks BREXIT Decision in Silver
The First World War Battlefront series has now released the third silver coin in the relatively new series of commemorative coins. The subject of this coin is the Battle of […]
WWI Battlefronts Series Remebers The Battle of Battle of Beaumont-Hamel
Forming part of their 2016 Australian Olympic Team Coin Program, the Royal Australian Mint has released a special Mob of Roos colourized one Dollar coin. Australia 2016 Olympics Mob of […]
2016 Olympic Mob of ‘Roos $1 Coin For Australia
In 2016 the Bulgarian Railroads are officially a 150 years old. To mark this event the National Bank of Bulgaria is issuing a special silver commemorative 10 Lev coin. Bulgaria […]
150 Years Since 1st Bulgarian Railroad Coin
This year the Ukraine will celebrates 20 years since the adoption of the Ukrainian Constitution on the 28th of June 1996. The National Bank of the Ukraine is commemorating the […]
20 Years for Ukraine Constitution Coin
Slovakia has issued a special silver collector’s coin to commemorate the first time that the Central European country will hold the presidency of the European Council. The Slovak Republic will […]
Slovakian Presidency of EU Council Silver Coin
The interesting, and relatively new, Discover Poland circulating commemorative coin series from Poland is now in it’s third year of issue and has just added a fourth coin to the […]
Priest’s Mill Features on New Discover Poland Coin
The 2016 Summer Olympics, to be held in Rio, is steadily drawing closer and as a result we can expect to see more and more Olympic themed coins to roll […]
New Zealand Commemorates Road To Rio Olympics
Portugal has released the 2015 UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage coin for 2016. The coin celebrates the proud art-form of Cante Alentejano. Cante Alentejano is a particular style of singing, very […]
Portugal Cante Alentejano Coins
2016 marks the bicentenary since German-born Russian scientist Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve began his work on what is today known as the Struve Geodetic Arc. To mark the anniversary […]
Bicentenary of Struve Geodetic Arc from Ukraine
2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the first documented European landing on Australian soil. To mark this occasion the Perth Mint is issuing the Dirk Hartog Australian Landing 1616 – […]
400th Anniversary of Australian Landfall Coin
Australia’s Returned and Services League(RSL) is an organization whose stated purpose it is to ensure “for the well-being, care, compensation and commemoration of serving and ex-service Defense Force members and […]
Australia Honours Returned and Services League
The story of England’s 1966 FIFA World Cup victory has been told and re-told so many times that it has reached legendary status. 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of that […]