Well, actually, yes. Following on from yesterday’s article about the Perth Mint’s Transformers bullion coins, New Zealand Mint has announced that it has been commissioned by S&A Partners – the official licensee of Lucasfilm. Lucas film is the production company behind the Star Wars phenomenon which has made a mutli, multi-millionaire our of the bran...

Perth Mint has released three coins that will grab the attention of children around the world, and at the same time offer a great way to start a valuable coin collection. Hasbro and Dreamworks have given their consent for the minting of The Transformer Silver Proof Collector Coins. These three coins look set to fight it out to discover the strongest, just...

The Royal Canadian Mint are expanding its offering of silver bullion coins to eight by 2013, by launching their ‘Canadian Wildlife Silver Bullion Coin Series Program’. Following on from the US Mint’s greater production levels to satisfy growing demand amongst coin collectors, Canada is to produce several more coins themselves. The designs will celeb...

China is fast becoming the powerhouse of the world economy. But the Chinese economy is not without its own problems created by its success, and the more entrepreneurial outlook of its population. Economic growth in the country is slowing, but at an annualised rate of 9.7% is still outpacing that of its western counterparts. Such a rate of growth brings infla...

The US Mint continues its program of America the Beautiful Silver Bullion Coin sales with the coin that honours the Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Oklahoma. A memorandum sent out Tuesday by the US Mint states that orders for the Chickasaw Bullion Coin would be accepted on Monday 18th July. Only Authorised Purchasers (AP’s) can order them, because...

A decade ago, few coin collectors could envision spending $100,000 or more for a coin. Back then, the sale of a US coin crossing into six figure territory was headline news in the numismatic world. Today, such an occurrence is commonplace and is largely relegated to the fine print of the” Prices Realized” reports. The graph below illustrates the numbe...

Initially, trade in the Far East was dull with both metals tracking sideways and bouncing around the closing value from the previous NYMEX session. However, as the clock ticked toward Europe’s opening, both commodities began to track down testing support levels. As it turned out, the release of the American trade balance, worse than expected at -$50bn ...

With a hangover from Friday’s poor US job figures being compounded by the head banging news of Europe’s final submission to Greece’s impending bankruptcy, stock markets suffered something of a migraine on Monday. Whilst most analysts have been convinced for some time that Greece would be unable to carry out its austerity plans and secure a second an...

Markets were quiet on Monday 4th, as Independence day in the USA took its toll on trading activity. However, action in the precious metals markets really kicked off on Tuesday, as Portugal’s debt was downgraded and investors once more looked toward safer haven investments. Action in gold bubbled over to the silver market, and the commodity bounced off it...