The Royal Australian Mint is showing support for the Wallabies’ bid to become World Champions, with the release of a $2 limited edition coin available in Woolworths supermarket registers from september 18th.

The $2 Wallabies coin captures the strength and dedication of the team as they embark on their campaign in Japan this month.

Featuring green and gold colours to honour the spirit of Australia, customers can find the coin in their change when they shop in Woolworths stores across the country. A total of 2 million special edition coins will...

The Royal Mint issued, a few days ago, the White Lion of Mortimer as the seventh coin in The Queen’s Beasts collection.

The White Lion of Mortimer is one of ten heraldic Beasts that form the Queen’s Beasts. Inspired by these ancient symbols of power and identity, the range brings to life the ten imposing statues that are part of an enduring legacy that define our ruling dynasties.

Lions are perhaps the most well-known symbols in heraldry and are often depicted as fearsome creatures. The White Lion of...

Since time immemorial, gold has had a special effect on those who behold it. The Magic of Gold series traces the mysterious nature of gold in Ancient cultures. No other metal has as much symbolic meaning as gold and no other concrete substance has been linked with so many abstract concepts, including heavenliness, immortality, purity and power.

All six coins in the Magic of Gold series feature ancient art treasures and the word ‘gold’ is written on each of them in the respective script of the culture they explore: Mesopotamia, ancient...

At an altitude of 2,429 meters above sea level, the Furka Pass is one of the highest and most impressive Alpine passes in Switzerland. It connects the hamlet of Gletsch in the canton of Valais with Andermatt in the canton of Uri and, together with the Oberalp Pass, forms a eastwest link within the Alps. The area is one of the snowiest in Switzerland. The European watershed runs along the pass: the Rhone flows southwest towards the Mediterranean, while the (Furka-)Reuss sweeps northeast into the Rhine and the North Sea....

In the series of coins celebrating the founding of the Vienna Mint, the third and last one “Robin Hood” will be issued on October 16.

Robin Hood, the subject of the third and final coin in the series, is the hero of numerous ballads dating from the late Middle Ages and early modern period. Over the centuries, his portrayal evolved from an outlaw into the righteous character who stole from the rich to give to the poor. It was Sir Walter Scott’s novel Ivanhoe, published in 1820, which forged the classic...

One of Australia’s most unusual and distinctive coin designs celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2019, the design never circulated and yet it is still treasured in numismatic circles today.

This 2019 25c Fine SilverProof Set remembers the Kookaburra coins, valued for their distinctive designs and rarity.

In 1919,Australia’s Government, championed by theTreasurer, proposed to exchange Australia’s old cumbersome bronze pennies and halfpennies with new coins that would be lighter and more niquely Australian in design. Between1919and1921,thirteen designs were trialled by the Royal Mint, all based on a square shape and bearing the image of a perched laughing...