The Perth Mint of Australia on Thursday warned its customers that its 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Australian Gold Coin is nearing a sellout. From an already extremely limited mintage of 1,000, just 60 remain.
Released on January 3, 2012, the 99.99% fine proof gold coin honors the Queen’s 60 years of reign, having ascended to the throne on February 6, 1952 with her coronation at the age of 27 as Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953. The only other British monarch to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee was Queen Victoria in 1897, the Queen’s great-great grandmother [...]
Available now from the Perth Mint of Australia are 2012 Year of the Dragon Gold Coins. These 2012 Year of the Dragon Gold Coins are issued by the Mint as a part of the Chinese Astrological Series and feature a dragon and the Chinese character for either prosperity, longevity or success — Fu, Lu and Shou.
Each coin is struck from 1/5 ounce of 99.99% pure gold to proof quality. The gold coins are available in differing product options. The ‘Prosperity’ coin is available individually with a maximum mintage of 2,000. Expanding on the Chinese Astrological Series, a [...]
The Perth Mint of Australia (www.perthmint.com.au) released the 2012 Australian Platypus Platinum Bullion Coin on Tuesday, December 5.
Unlike the multiple series of the gold and silver bullion coins issued by the Perth Mint, there is only one platinum bullion coin, and that features the platypus. The Mint has offered other numismatic or collector platinum coins.
The 2011 Australian Platypus Platinum Bullion Coin was the inaugural issue in the new series. It sold out with a mintage of [...]
One of the fastest selling collectible coin programs released by the Royal Australian Mint is coming to the green fairways of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club when it hosts The Presidents Cup tournament for the second time from 15 – 20 November 2011.
Golfers and collectors alike are racing to own one of these high quality, stunning coins that have almost sold out already through the usual Royal Australian Mint sales channels [...]/p>
In a move likely to intrigue anyone who hears about it, the Perth Mint of Australia has unveiled an enormous 1 tonne Gold Kangaroo Coin.
The Australian strike is touted by the Perth as the "biggest, heaviest, inherently the most valuable gold bullion coin in the world."
The specifications of the new Gold Kangaroo coin back up the Perth Mint’s claim. The massive piece weighs in at approximately one ton which equates to 1,000 kilograms or 32,150.746 troy ounces. This coin’s diameter and thickness are [...]
The Perth Mint of Australia has issued the newest releases from its annual Australian Lunar Series II program with a staggering sixteen coins presented as part of the 2012 Year of the Dragon Gold and Silver Bullion Series. These sixteen Year of the Dragon Gold and Silver Bullion Coins are spread across nine different 99.99% pure gold strikes and seven composed of 99.9% pure silver.
Each of the bullion coins features the image of a mythical dragon which is the fifth creature to be celebrated as part of the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac. Under that zodiac, those born between the upcoming Chinese New Year of January 23, 2012 and the end of that 12-month calendar on February 09, 2013 are said to be born in the Year of the Dragon. [...]
Woolley & Wallis, the Salisbury (U.K.) Fine Art Auctioneers, who are including an increasing number of coins and medals in their sales, are to offer three extremely rare gold Imperial Sovereigns struck at the Sydney Mint in Australia in 1880.
During one of their regular Valuation Days the auctioneers received a consignment of 150 coins dating from 1843 to 1887.
Outwardly they appeared to be a fairly standard group, but on examination three of the 1880 coins display an error by the Mint in spelling the Queen’s name VICTORIA — an inverted ‘A’ has been used in place of the ‘V’ [...]
The Royal Australian Mint has published its numismatic product schedule for calendar year 2012 which covers its range of product releases from September 2011 through to August 2012. The Mint also released a video describing several of the offerings.
Additionally, the Royal Australian Mint launched a new program entitled "Collection by Selection" where collectors can use a simple order form to pre-order and pre-pay for upcoming products, thereby locking in prices. Collection by Selection orders are automatically shipped when a selected product is released, and ahead of other normal orders [...]
2012 Australian Silver Koala Coins will continue the run of the sought after annual series when released by the Perth Mint of Australia on November 1, 2011.
The bullion coins will be available in four different sizes, including 1 kilo, 10 ounce, 1 ounce and 1/2 ounce. Each is struck from 99.9% pure silver.
The Australian Silver Koala series is unique among the bullion coins of the world due, in part, to their annually changing reverse designs [...]
2012 Australian Kookaburra Silver Bullion Coins were released today, September 1, 2011 by the Perth Mint of Australia. The new Silver Kookaburras are available in three different .999 fine silver sizes — 1 kilo, ten ounce and one ounce.
This release marks the twenty-third annual issue of the series as they date back to when the inaugural Kookaburra appeared in 1990. Since that debut, the coins have come to be one of the most sought after bullion strikes in the world [...]
