In what is turning out to be an annual event, MMTC Pamp, under licence from the Royal Mint, has issued the latest addition to the popular Indian sovereign series. Minting of the 2015 issue appears to ...

I’ve just picked up a nice run of early threepences in high grade. Included in the group are scarcer dates such as the 1912, 1916M, and 1940, as well as high-grade examples of more common dates, suc...

There’s a lot of confusion around the obverse varieties of the Jubilee head sovereign. Everyone from the coin dealers, collectors, authors, and even PCGS have made attribution errors in their public...

It’s not every day that I get to attend an international coin event, so when I heard about a small coin show in Nagoya, Japan while holidaying in Tokyo last January, I couldn’t stop myself from ho...

It’s not the first time that someone has wondered what stories could be told if only coins could talk. An ancient gold aureus might have once belonged to Julius Caesar; or perhaps it was that hammer...

It’s been two years since I’ve been to Perth, but I haven’t forgotten how much I had enjoyed the trip there the first time, so when the dates for the ANDA Coin Show were set, I booked my flights...

Proof coins with highly reflective, mirror-like fields can be described as either cameo (abbreviated to “CAM” on the PCGS certificate) or deep cameo (abbreviated to “DCAM”). CAM and DCAM refer...

Here is a selection of images from the 2014 Coinex Coin Show, which was held in London on the 26th and 27th of September 2014. Coinex Coin Show. The main entrance hall to the venue, the Millennium Hot...

Here’s a selection of images from the 2014 Sydney ANDA Coin Show, which was held on Friday and Saturday the 24th and 25th of October. Sydney ANDA ShowThe main aisle of the show. The Royal Australia ...

On the way back from Europe last month, a collector friend of mine had a stopover in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. While there, he dropped by one of the local Gold souqs (or markets) with the inten...

If you’re from Sydney and have been collecting coins for longer than twelve months, you’d have heard about the Petersham Coin Show. Although it’s not as glamorous as the annual ANDA Coin Shows, ...

Unlike previous years, the Melbourne ANDA Coin Show was held at the Dallas Brooks Centre just off Victoria Parade on the edge of Melbourne’s CBD. I arrived early, a few minutes before doors opened, ...

Hot off the dies are the Royal Mint’s latest issues from India. Following on from last year’s success, the Mint, in partnership with MMTC-PAMP, has issued gold sovereigns for the year 2014, all ma...

It’s been a long time coming, but PCGS now recognises the very popular 2000 millennium fifty cent incused flag variety.

I haven’t visited the Easter Show RAM mobile press in years, but as I was in the area last week, I thought I’d drop by and say hello.

The Singapore International Coin Fair is held every year at the end of March in one of Singapore’s premier hotels, Marina Bay Sands. As one of the biggest coin shows in the Asia-Pacific region, the ...

The subject of confirming if a George V penny has a London or Indian obverse, to the non-enthusiast, may seem trivial. However, when the outcome of this distinction may make hundreds or thousands of d...

The most famous mule coin observed in the pre-decimal series is the 1916-I halfpenny, where an Indian Quarter Anna obverse die was paired with an Australian Commonwealth halfpenny reverse. The planche...

If you collect 2000 one dollar mule coins, look no further. I just picked up an example of this popular coin graded PCGS MS64—the equal-finest graded by PCGS to date. The coin has full lustre, great...

Fairly current examples of these first two categories spring to mind are the $2 fake coins that appeared a couple of years ago and date altered pre-decimal coins such as 1923 halfpennies and 1930 penn...