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Pobjoy Mint Will No Longer Mint Isle of Man Coins
After more than forty years the British Pobjoy Mint and the Isle of man will be parting ways. This comes after the…
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Australian Classic Cars Remembered on New Coin Series
Earlier this year year the Royal Australian Mint released a three coin set that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Australian children’s…
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New Zealand Releases Sherlock Themed Silver Coin Set
By now the New Zealand Mint is very familiar with licensed products. They have issued a wide variety of Disney themed coins…
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Snowman On 3rd Disney’s Frozen Silver Coin
The Frozen – Magic of the Northern Lights Disney silver coin collection is already in it’s third issue with the Olaf coin…
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Monarch Butterfly Flutters onto Great Migrations Silver Series
The Great Migrations series of silver coins from the New Zealand Mint is proving to be a very interesting new series of…
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Lithuanian Silver Coin for 2016 Olympic Games
Lithuania has a long standing tradition of issuing commemorative silver coins to celebrate the Olympic games, dating back to 1996 when the…
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Portugal Issues 2nd Commemorative €2 Coin for 2016
Portugal has now issued it’s second circulating commemorative two Euro coin for 2016. The first coin was issued earlier in the year…
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Segovia Aqueduct on New Spanish €2 Coin
The Royal Spanish Mint(Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre) has released their 2016 entry to the commemorative two Euro coin program. This…
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Spain Celebrates 300 Yrs of Postal Service
Spain has released a new silver commemorative coin that celebrates 300 years since the creation of the Spanish postal service. The Royal…
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New War Memorial Coins From Transnistria
Transnistria has added two additional coins to their “Military Glory Memorials of Transnistria” series. The series is a relatively a new one,…
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Silver Coin Marks 450th Year for Russian City
Maintaining their busy release schedule, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (also known as the Bank of Russia) has released two…
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5oz Silver Coin added to Treasury of World Culture Series for 2016
The Bank of Russia is seeing a busy week with the release of no less than seven new commemorative coins across four…
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Russia Adds 3 New Coins to Ancient Towns Series
In addition to two new silver commemorative coins, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is also releasing several circulating commemorative coins…
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More Olympic Coins from Royal Australian Mint
Olympic fever is starting to spread, with the 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympic games just around the corner, and the Royal Australian…
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Italy Celebrates Philosopher’s 150th Birthday
The latest commemorative coin from the Italian Mint(Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato) commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of renowned…
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Transnistria Issues 7th Coin in Zodiac Series
The zodiac is always a popular theme, with several world mints regularly issuing coins adorned with this theme. Most of these coins…
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New Pair of Brexit Gold Coins
Following on Britain’s ;landmark decision, last week, to exit the European Union, the Cook Islands issued a commemorative silver coin to mark…
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Banknote News Roundup – June 2016
New Releases The Bank of England has unveiled the design of the new polymer five pound banknote. The banknote features Winston Churchill…
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Royal Mint Remembers the Battle of the Somme
The battle of the Somme(sometimes referred to as the Somme Offensive) was contested between British, French and German troops between July 1…
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Nancy Reagan First Spouse Gold Coin
Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s release of the 2016 Platinum Eagles, the US Mint is today releasing the Nancy Reagan…
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