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 […]
2016
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 four […]
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 releasing […]
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 and […]
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 1866Benedetto Croce is […]
Italy Celebrates Philosopher’s 150th Birthday
The zodiac is always a popular theme, with several world mints regularly issuing coins adorned with this theme. Most of these coins however are precious metal or commemorative collector's coins, […]
Transnistria Issues 7th Coin in Zodiac Series
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
New ReleasesThe Bank of England has unveiled the design of the new polymer five pound banknote. The banknote features Winston Churchill and is set for release on the 13th of […]
Banknote News Roundup – June 2016
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 2016 American Eagle Platinum Proof Coins are now available for order from the United States Mint.The 2016 American Eagle One Ounce Platinum Proof Coin is the second release, in […]
2016 Platinum Eagles Available
The Kings of the Continents series from the New Zealand Mint has now released the fourth coin in the silver coin series. Featuring the largest animal for the series so […]
Roaring Grizzly Rules Latest Continents Silver Coin
The Frozen - Magic of the Northern Lights silver coin collection continues with the second of five planned coins from the New Zealand Mint. The latest installment in the series […]
Princess Anna Continues Disney Frozen Silver Coin Collection
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
History is filled with stories and legends of people who fought bravely to defend what they love, to conquer their enemies and bend the world around them to their will. […]
Samurai Launches New Warriors of History Silver Coin Series
The Athletics coin is the ninth and final coin in Finland's Sports coins series and it is now available from the Mint of Finland.The series was initiated in 2015 and […]
Athletics Closes Finland’s Sports Coins Series Just Ahead of Olympics
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
Following on the resounding success of the Southern Skies series, that concluded in 2014, it is no surprise that the Royal Australian Mint last year decided to launch a companion […]
Ursa Major Becomes 2nd Domed Coin in Northern Skies Series
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.The 2016 Mob of Boxing Kangaroos […]
2016 Olympic Mob of ‘Roos $1 Coin For Australia
The Royal Canadian Mint continues to be, not only one of the most prolific, but also one of the most innovative mints worldwide. From the Elizabeth Rose silver dollar coin(which […]
Innovative New Maple Leaf Shaped Coin From Canada
The Creatures of Greek Mythology series is now on it's sixth issue from the New Zealand Mint, and this time around features the Sirens of ancient Greek mythology.Sirens were said […]