After releasing the standard five coin proof set for the 2017 America the Beautiful Quarter Dollars earlier in January, the US Mint have now made available the silver set for […]
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1 On the day of her 21st birthday, in April of 1947, the then Princess Elizabeth gave an address from Cape Town, South Africa, where the royal family was on tour. […]
Coronation and Jubilee Coins of Queen Elizabeth II 1952 – ...
New Zealand Mint has found significant success in recent times by producing licenced numismatic products. They especially seem to have struck gold(or silver as the case may be) with Disney […]
New Zealand Mint Launches New Star Wars Ships Silver Coin ...
New Zealand Mint have now released the sixth coin in their Warriors of History silver coin collection. For the first time the series turns it’s gaze towards the Americas with […]
Apache Silver Coin Storms Warriors of History Collection
The New Zealand Mint continues it’s Classic Star Wars series with the first new coins in the series for 2017. This time it is the turn of Luke Skywalker to […]
Luke Skywalker Joins Classic Star Wars Coin Collection
During 2017 Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her Sapphire Jubilee, making her not only the worlds oldest living monarch at 91, but Britain’s first ever monarch to have reigned for […]
Royal Mint Celebrates Queen Elizabeth II Sapphire Jubilee in Gold ...
Finding a way to effectively capture some of nature’s most remarkable spectacles on a small piece of silver is not an easy task, and numismatic catalogues are littered with failed […]
2017 Southern Lights Silver Holographic Coin from New Zealand
A new year seems usher with it a renewed sense of optimism, that new opportunities might arise and bring with it undiscovered bounty. Well in numismatics at least we can […]
Commemorative Coins From Royal Mint for 2017
The French Mint has consistently delivered solid numismatic products over the past decade or so, their Women of France series is still one of my favourites of the last couple […]
New Liberty Gold and Silver Coins From France
Well the Presidential dollar series may have come to a close in 2016, but that doesn’t mean that you have no hope of seeing America’s 45th president on a coin […]
World’s 1st Legal Tender Donald Trump Coins
The Bank of Russia has issued the first commemorative silver coin for 2017. The coin celebrates the 190th anniversary of the birth of the renowned Russian geologist Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky(1827 […]
Russian Geologist Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Remembered on New Silver Coin
The Royal Canadian Mint has released it’s first numismatic catalogue of what is set to be a historic year in 2017, where Canadians will celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary. First off […]
New Gold and Silver Coins From Canadian Mint for January ...
On the 7th of June 2017 the Lions Clubs International will celebrate a centenary of service, after the charitable organisation was established by Melvin Jones in 1917. In order to […]
2017 Lions Clubs Silver Dollar Coin Now Available
2017 marks the 175th anniversary of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, who gave their first performance on March 28, 1842. In order to commemorate this achievement the Austrian Mint is releasing […]
175th Anniversary of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Silver Coin
It’s time again for New Zealand’s annual wildlife silver $5 coin to be released and this year the coin is set to feature the indigenous Laughing Owl. Each year New […]
Laughing Owl Pure Silver Coin from New Zealand
Finland this year celebrates one hundred years of independent rule, after it declared it’s independence from the Russian Empire in 1917. To mark this occasion the Mint of Finland is […]
Finland Celebrates a Century of Independence with Gold And Silver ...
The Royal Australian Mint is this week continuing it’s long standing Kangaroo series with the 2017 iteration of the silver coin. Just to be clear, these are not to be […]
New Season’s Change Kangaroo Silver Coins from Australia
The Royal Australian Mint has a wonderful standing tradition in the new year to allow members of the public and collectors to mint the first coins of that year, and […]
Trans Australian Railways Centenary Coins Ring in New Year
There are several places around the world that have become focal points for new year’s celebrations. Times Square in New York with it’s descending ball counting down to the new […]
Australian 2017 New Year’s Silver $1 Coin
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has just made available the 2017 Kiwi gold and silver coins. This is the third year of issue for what I hope will become […]
New Zealand Releases 2017 Kiwi Gold and Silver Coins
In their nearly century long history the South African Mint has reliably remained one of the worlds best mints. Although prone to a tendency to ”play things safe”, they have […]
South Africa to Issue 1st Colour Finish Silver Coins
Slovakia has now released it’s 5th collector’s coin for 2016, and it continues the Kremnica Mint’s longstanding track record of high quality designs featuring historical figures. Much in the vain […]
New Silver Coin from Slovakia
First look at the new 2017 Kangaroo, Kookaburra and Rooster bullion coins from the Perth Mint. I really do think that the Perth Mint knocked the proverbial ball out of […]
First Look at 2017 Kangaroo, Kookaburra and Rooster Coins
Every year on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, nations around the world remember those brave men and women who lost their lives while serving in the military. In […]
Royal Mint reveals 2016 Remembrance Day Crown
Lithuania carries the distinction of being the first country to declare it’s independence from the former Soviet Union in the early nineties, having first done so on March 11, 1990. […]
Lithuania Celebrates 25th anniversary of independence With Silver €20
The Pitcairn Islands, a group of four islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, have issued a set of four 1oz silver coins celebrating the magnificent Whales of the Southern Ocean. […]
Whales Make a Splash on New Silver Coins from Pitcairn
Greek mythology is almost as popular as Vikings are in numismatics these days. The New Zealand Mint has an entire series dedicated to the theme and Art Mint have this […]
2017 Silver 1oz Pegasus Coin Launches
Seemingly already looking well past even Christmas at this stage and towards valentines, the New Zealand Mint has already released the 2017 installment in their very popular Love is Precious […]
Lovebirds Feature on 2017 “Love is Precious” Silver Coin
The newest release from the New Zealand Mint’s Classic Star Wars series pays tribute to Princess Leia Organa on three silver and gold pieces that fits in with the rest […]
Classic Star Wars Gold & Silver Collection Welcomes Princess Leia
The stated purpose of the New Zealand Mint’s Warriors of History silver coin collection is to explore stories of legendary warrior people, who fought and conquered their enemies through the […]