The Perth Mint has released the 2023-dated Australian Kookaburra one-ounce silver bullion coins. First issued in 1990, the Australian Kookaburra has become a favourite series with both collectors and investors featuring imagery of the iconic bird that draws its name from the Wiradjuri word “gugubarra.” The 2023-dated Kookaburra is the 34th design in the annual […]
Perth Mint — Australia: Latest Lunar year silver Proof one-ounce coins feature the rabbit
The Perth Mint has released its fourth set of Lunar zodiac coins, Series III, with designs featuring the 12 traditional signs of the Chinese zodiac cycle. The reverse side of the 2023-dated Lunar zodiac is designed by Ing Ing Jong, whose depiction of an alert rabbit with its ears erect and another rabbit stretching towards […]
Retrospective: Collecting world coins during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, part 6
2000s The new millennium began officially in 2001, but a lot of Mints decided to issue coins dated 2000 and with commemorative designs mostly to accommodate collectors who wanted something special to mark the event. One year earlier, a British £5 crown with a dual year date of 1999 and 2000 was one of many […]
Perth Mint — Tuvalu: New gold and silver ingot Proof coins celebrate 60 years of James Bond
The treasury of Tuvalu, along with the Perth Mint, have released new gold and silver Proof ingot coins on the 60th anniversary of the release of the first motion picture film featuring author Ian Fleming’s fictional secret agent in Her Majesty’s Secret Service, known as James Bond. Created by Fleming (1908–1964) in 1952, much of […]
Perth Mint — Australia: Celebrated Nugget design returns on gold and silver bullion ounce coins
The Perth Mint has released its range of Nugget gold and silver bullion coins for 2022, which features the famed Little Hero gold nugget. Discovered in 1890 by a prospecting party near Marble Bar in Western Australia’s arid northwest, the once-in-a-lifetime prize weighed in at a staggering 333 ounces. The giant nugget, which at the […]
Perth Mint — Australia: Iconic Super Pit gold mine featured on gold and silver bullion coins
The Perth Mint has released its latest gold and silver bullion quality coins which feature one of the world’s most prolific mines, in terms of gold production. The reverse side of the gold and silver versions is designed by graphic artist Sean Rogers, whose artistic representation portrays a Komatsu excavator in the Super Pit open […]
Perth Mint — Australia: New gold and silver Proof coins celebrate the 15th anniversary of the “Australian Koala” coin series
The Perth Mint has released new silver and gold Proof commemorative coins marking the release of the first Koala bullion coins fifteen years ago. Though often referred to as “bears,” there is no biological relation to this category of mammal. Koalas, in fact, belong to a group of pouched marsupial mammals, many of which are […]
Perth Mint — Australia: Spiritual black swan maali depicted on new silver and colour coin
The Perth Mint has released new antiqued silver two-ounce coins portraying an original coloured painting of a black swan by Western Australian Indigenous artist Kevin Bynder. The design on the reverse side of the coin is the work of Whadjuk-Yuet-Ballardong-renowned aboriginal artist Kevin Bynder, whose depiction of a maali is shown descending on the water […]
Perth Mint — Australia: Latest silver bullion coins in “Next Generation” series features Australia’s wild dog — the dingo
The Perth Mint has released its latest silver bullion coins which are part of their ongoing “Next Generation” series, now in its fifth year. For 2022, the coins feature Australia’s own wild dog, the dingo. Other coins in the series have featured: 2021 the Platypus; 2020 the Kookaburra; 2019 the Crocodile, and 2018 the Koala. […]
Perth Mint — Australia: Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II celebrated on gold and silver Proof coins
The Perth Mint has released (4th April) new Proof strikes in both gold and silver which mark the 70th year of accession of Queen Elizabeth II. Her remarkable reign began on the 6th February 1952 after the untimely death of her beloved father King George VI. A glorious coronation followed 16 months after the Queen’s […]
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