After the iguanas and fish, the private mint facility “Scottsdale Mint” from the US state of Arizona has introduced a new coin series: Under the flag of Ghana, the mint will distribute the “African Leopard” as a silver bullion coin. As in the case of the previous silver investment coins of the Scottsdale Mint, the circulation is only 50,000 pieces. The back of the new animal coin shows an aggressive leopard, which apparently falls straight on an unsuspecting booty. The...
Anyone who believes that coin collecting is a dying hobby should at least once in a lifetime attend the market introduction of an Austrian commemorative coin: As with the earlier editions of the new three-euro special editions, long queues of people showed up on June 7, 2017 in front of the shop of the Austrian Mint. There were scenes like they are known only from salesstarts of new mobile phones. According to the Austrian Mint, hundreds of people had been waiting for the new brilliant...
The kangaroo is increasingly becoming Australia’s new bullion ambassador. In addition to the standard version for investment, the Perth Mint has offered its “Australian Kangaroo” as a proof variant for the first time in 2016 – and now the mint continueswith a magnificent XXL coin: The silver kangaroo is available for the first time in 2017 in proof quality. With an edition of only 300 pieces, the coin is likely to become a modern rarity.The coinage will be available from...
The Pobjoy Mint from Great Britain has introduced an innovative coin for the “British Indian Ocean Territory” in the South Atlantic: The two-pound coin is made of titanium and features a green turtle. The metal shows a different style on each coin, so that every green turtles coin varies slightly in color. Parallel to the green-colored titanium, version there will also be a copper-nickel version. This particular coin shows two turtles (Latin name: “Chelonia mydas”)...
For decades, the Royal Mint of Britain had stood in the shadows in the global bullion market, but has since then earned a permanent place in the precious metal scene with the Britannia, Lunar series and the Queen’s Beasts. And now the mint from Wales comes out with a real surprise: A four-coin series from the bullion department of the Royal Mint features “Landmarks of Britain” and is aimed at collectors and investors alike. Die-hard UK fans know the motives already, a set of...
The Royal Mint takes the occasion of the “London Platinum Week” to announce their entry into the trade in platinum products. Since mid-May, Royal Mint coins and bars are available in platinum – for the first time in over a thousand year history of the Royal Mint. At the beginning of the Royal Mint’s platinum product line extension, a 500 gramm and one kilo platinum has been introcused, bullion bars to 100 grams and one ounce of platinum will follow later. Additionally, a...
Gold is very popular in the Arabic World, but Gold products have to meet strict standards to comply with the Shari’ah rules. The Royal Mint from the United Kingdom has announced now that they are the first mint worldwide to achieve compliance with the Shari’ah Standard on Gold for retail sales of its gold and silver bullion coins and bars. With its innovation, the Mint is now able to sell their products to a wider audience of investors. The bullion products of the Royal Mint bullion have been...
Shortly after publication of the new five-euro commemorative coin “Tropical Zone”, another special coin of the Federal Republic of Germany has been sold old right after the initial market introduction: Just hours after the launch, no more copies of the new 50 euro commemorative coin “Luther Rose” were available at the point of sale for collector coins of the Federal Republic of Germany (VfS). The coins had an issue price of 332.67 euros, representing a premium of about...
The German capital has produced big news once again – this time it’s not a mishap airport, but a similar curious story: A rare example of the “Big Maple Leaf” XXL edition of the popular Canadian Bullion coin was stolen from the Bode Museum in Berlin. The nominal value of the giant coin is one million Canadian dollars, equivalent to about 700,000 euros. The gold value was 3.75 million euros at the end of March 2017. . From the record coin there are only five pieces...
The rush to coin fairs such as the “World Money Fair” and the massive interest in gold bullion coins creates the impression that gold has increasingly developed from an insider investment to a mainstream investment product. In fact, gold is still a fair way off from that. Although in opinion polls, the agreement for gold as an investment product has been constantly growing for years, to date “only” every eighth totenth German actually possesses gold for investment...