Coin Collecting News
The Royal Australian Mint have announced the issue of the latest coin to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, which will occur on the 6th February of this year. Queen Elizabeth II has been head of State of the Commonwealth of Australia since 1952 and has paid no less than 16 official visits [...]
The Royal Canadian Mint has announced their first collector coin of the year, the 2012 Proof Silver Dollar celebrating the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. The coin is designed by military artist Ardell Bourgeois of British Columbia and features a British Sergeant, a Voltigeur Canadian, and an Iroquois warrior united in defense of [...]
The Royal Mint have launched (9th January) a limited edition two coin set which brings together the Queen’s golden and Diamond Jubilee anniversaries with the presentation of the gold crowns issued in 2002 and for the latest 2012 event. Queen Elizabeth II becomes only the second British monarch to achieve a 60-year reign, an historic achievement [...]
The Canadian government will introduce a composition change for their $1 and $2 coins, known respectively as the ‘loonie’ and ‘toonie’, in the March-April 2012 timeframe in order to save money in their production and distribution, as well as make them more difficult to counterfeit. The change was announced in the 2011 federal budget, but [...]
The Austrian Mint will issue on the 25th January 2012 the first of a new 5 coin gold series celebrating one of the leading luminaries of the art nouveau movement, Gustav Klimt, and his primary subject, women. The series commencing this year also coincides with the 150th anniversary of Klimt’s birth. Gustav Klimt was born [...]
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation have issued (27th December) a series of collector coins to mark the XXII Olympic and XI Paralympic Winter Games which will be held in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi. The series of ingot-style coins includes three issues, two gold and one silver. The obverse design carries [...]
On January 3, 2012, the Perth Mint of Australia released a 1/4 ounce gold proof coin to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty ascended the throne on February 6, 1952 and was crowned Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953. The reverse design of the coin features the original Mary Gillick [...]
The National Bank of Poland have issued a collector’s coin to highlight Polish popular music along with those artists seen as instrumental in bringing their style of entertainment to national attention. The coin is the latest release in the on-going series highlighting popular culture and entertainment. Jeremi Przybora (1915 – 2004) and Jerzy Wasowski (1913 [...]
Following in the footsteps of the immensely successful “Ram Dollar” issued last year, The Royal Australian Mint have launched (1st January) the second in a series of historical designs from Australia’s colorful numismatic past. In an effort to highlight one of the Country’s most important industries, that of wheat production (Australia is the currently the [...]
The statistics of human trafficking are staggering, it affects the smallest village, town, and big city, and no continent is exempt. The figures are growing in terms of the number of women and men becoming victims of this horrific practice. But what can one person or group do to help combat this intolerable situation which [...]
