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New Zealand Commemorates Rugby Tour on New Coins
During June and July of 2017 the British and Irish Lions will tour New Zealand for the first time in twelve years.…
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Laughing Buddha Shines on Ultra High Relief Silver Coin
CIT(Coin Invest Trust) showed off several new coins at the 2017 Singapore International Coin Fair this year. Amongst those is the new…
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New French Gold and Silver Coins from Banks of the Seine Series
Monnaie de Paris(French Mint) is following up on it’s excellent UNESCO – Banks of The Seine series in 2017 with the National…
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Star Wars 40th Anniversary Silver Coin
“A Long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away” … with those words started a forty year journey that is still…
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Frederick Douglass 3-Coin Sets now Available
The US Mint has now released the 2017 America the Beautiful Frederick Douglass National Historic Site three coin set. The Frederick Douglass…
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New Zealand Mint Releases Pirates of the Caribbean Silver Coin
The New Zealand Mint is continuing their ever expanding series of Disney licenced coins this year with the release of a new…
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Australia Remembers Anzac Day With Circulating Commemorative Coin
The Royal Australian Mint has issued the 2017 Lest We Forget circulating commemorative $2 coin in remembrance of Anzac Day. Every year…
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Spain Releases 1st Commemorative €2 for 2017
The Royal Mint of Spain(Real Casa de la Moneda) has released their first of two circulating commemorative €2 coin for 2017. Every…
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Guinevere is 2nd Coin in Cook Islands High Relief Camelot Series
The latest high relief coin in the Cook Islands Legends of Camelot series, minted by the Choice Mint, is now available and…
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Public Design Competition to Decide 2019 Apollo 11 Coin Design
Pursuant to Public Law 114-282 the US Mint will in 2019 be issuing four special commemorative coins on the 50th anniversary of…
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SouthAfrican Mint Remembers 1st Heart Transplant with Brilliant New Silver Coin Set
The South African Mint is not allowing the hype over the 50th anniversary of the Krugerrand to distract them from their other…
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New Celestial Bodies 2oz Silver Series from Art Mint
Amongst the new coins revealed by the Art Mint at this year’s Berlin World Money Fair, is the brand new series entitled…
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Hummingbird Flitters Onto 2017 Shades of Nature Coin
The Shades of Nature Series from the Cook Islands continues in 2017 with the fourth coin in the series. Leaving behind the…
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2017 America the Beautiful Uncirculated Coin Set
Having already released both the proof and silver sets earlier in the year, the US Mint has now also released the America…
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Vatican Issues First Coins for 2017
The Vatican City State’s Philatelic and Numismatic office have released their annual Euro coin sets for 2017. In total there are three…
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St. Mark’s Basilica Features on New Italian Commemorative Coin
The Italian Mint(Istituto Polografica e Zecca dello Stato or IPZS for short) has now released the first commemorative circulating €2 for Italy…
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Australia Remembers Poet Henry Lawson with 5oz Silver Coin
Few individuals are capable of speaking to the soul of a nation better than her artists. With the truly gifted possessing the…
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Austria Issues 2017 Easter Lamb Coins
The Austrian Mint is in 2017 continuing it’s tradition of issuing affordable collector’s coins to celebrate Easter. Much like Last year, 2016,…
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2017 2oz Silver Dragon Coin features Antique Finish
The Perth Mint is no stranger to issuing dragon themed coins. 2016 saw the release of the Dragon and his Nine Sons…
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US Mint 225th Anniversary High Relief Gold Liberty Proof Coin
Well after some fanfare and initial mixed reactions from collectors, can’t please everyone I suppose, the long awaited American Liberty 225th Anniversary…
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2017-S Proof Silver Eagle Sold Out in Minutes
Themed annual sets like birthday, anniversary and congratulation sets are largely ignored by collectors. Rightly so, as they are aimed at the…
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