Titanium Great White Shark Coin Available From the Pobjoy Mint

The Pobjoy Mint’s newest colorful titanium coin, issued on behalf of the British Virgin Islands government, features the powerful great white shark. In addition to the turquoise titanium $5 coin, an Uncirculated copper-nickel dollar and a Proof .925 fine silver $5 coin with the design are also available. 

The Great White Shark is getting the Titanium treatment from the Pobjoy Mint.

The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is a species of large shark that can be found in the coastal waters of all the major oceans. Great white sharks are estimated to live as long as 70 years or more. The great white shark has no natural predators other than the orca and is one of the primary predators of marine mammals.

A great white has a white underside and a gray dorsal area. This coloration makes the shark difficult for prey to spot, because it breaks up the shark’s outline when seen from the side. From above, the darker shade blends with the sea, and from below, the shark’s silhouette against the sunlight is minimized.

The reverse of the coins shows an underwater scene with a central image of a great white shark. The obverses carry an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II exclusive to the Pobjoy Mint. 

Titanium is exceptionally difficult to strike and, because of the way the colored titanium reacts when striking, no titanium coin is exactly like another. A lined effect also present on the coins is unique to this metal.

COIN SPECIFICATIONS:

• PURITY - .990 Fine Titanium
• WEIGHT - Coin Weight 10 grams
• MEASUREMENTS - 36.1 millimeters in diameter.
• MINTAGE: limit of 5,000 pieces

Also Available are Copper Nickel and Silver Proof Versions - The Uncirculated copper-nickel dollar and Proof silver $10 coin each weigh 28.28 grams and measure 38.6 millimeters in diameter. The $1 coin has unlimited mintage and retails for $16.95. The $10 coin is limited to a mintage of 10,000 pieces and retails for $65.

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2011 Copper 1 oz Globe & Gears - Base Metal Bullion

2011 Globe & Gears One (Avoirdupois) Ounce Copper Bullion Round

Specifications:

Condition: Uncirculated
Finish: Bullion-Quality
Material: 999 Fine Copper
Product Size: 39 mm
Product Year: 2011
Weight: 1 av oz / 28.35 gr

Celebrate Australia Kakadu National Park – World Heritage Sites 2012 $1 Coin - Perth Mint

This beautiful Celebrate Australia release is one of five 2012 $1 coins portraying stunning Australian landscapes and marine environments inscribed on the World Heritage List.

Kakadu National Park Reverse

Struck from aluminium bronze, the coin’s coloured reverse represents Kakadu National Park’s primordial scenery, including a river scene featuring the White Snowflake Water Lily and a Black Necked Stork.

‘P’ Mintmark

The coin’s reverse design also incorporates The Perth Mint’s ‘P’ mintmark.

Australian Legal Tender

Issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965, the coin bears the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse.

Eye-Catching Presentation Card and Display Folded

The individual coin is housed on an eye-catching presentation card, which has a fold-out stand for upright display.

Five-Coin Collection

All coins in the five-coin collection are housed in a great folder to help display and protect your coins. Other Australian Heritage Sites included in the collection are the Lord Howe Island Group, Fraser Island, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and the Wallandra Lakes Region.

• World Heritage Site Design
• Kakadu National Park Reverse
• ‘P’ Mintmark
• Australian Legal Tender
• Eye-Catching Presentation Card
• Available Individually or in a Five-Coin Collection with Bonus Album

2013 50 c Uncirculated Coin - 50th Anniversary of Surfing Australia

The Royal Australian Mint is offering this 2013 50 c Uncirculated Coin - 50th Anniversary of Surfing Australia

With around 2.5 million recreational surfers taking advantage of Australia's vast coastline, surfing can truly be called a national pastime. Thrust into popularity by Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku in 1914, surfing became the realm of the young and adventurous. Recent generations have seen it become a serious professional sport and cultural icon.

Accompanying surfing's rise to prominence was Surfing Australia, established fifty years ago to guide and promote the development of Australian surfing. Since then the organisation has represented the sport locally and internationally through surf schools, development programs, camps, coaching and sponsorships.

This commemorative 50c coin is housed in innovative, self-supporting packaging and is a colourful creation that will brighten up any collection.

Denomination	Metal	Mass	Diameter	Finish	Mintage	Designer
50c	Cu/Nickel	15.55g	31.51mm	Uncirculated	Unlimited	A.Stokic

DINOSAUR GLOW IN THE DARK Pachyrhinosaurus Lakustai 25c Canada 2012

The Mint has created its first glow-in-the-dark coin, a quarter featuring a dinosaur discovered near Grand Prairie, Alta. in 1973.

In the light, the quarter features the Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai dinosaur, named after Al Lakusta, the man who stumbled on its bones in the Pipestone Creek bonebed.

When the lights go off, the dinosaur’s glowing skeleton is revealed.

The Mint only made 25,000 of these photoluminescent coins. It plans to release three more glow-in-the-dark coins featuring prehistoric creatures.

Apparently, the glowing effect won’t wear off.

While the quarters have a face value of 25 cents, they will be on sale online and at Canada Post locations for $29.95.

The Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai dinosaur coin is the first in a 4-coin Prehistoric Creature glow-in-the-dark (photo-luminescent) series! Turn off the lights and discover the Pachyrhinosaurus’s glowing skeleton! Designs approved by the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai

The frst Pachyrhinosaurus was unearthed and named by C.M. Sternberg in 1946, from the St. Mary Formation of Southwestern Alberta. Sternberg later described the specimen as Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis in 1950.

Pachyrhinosaurus was an ornithischian dinosaur, belonging to the larger group of ceratopsians, (horned, herbivorous dinosaurs). It lived in the Late Cretaceous of North America, about 72-68 million years ago.
Pachyrhinosaurus was a fairly large animal, like the present day rhinoceros, reaching up to 23 feet in length. As its name suggests, it had a thick (pachy) bony knob on its nose (rhino) rather than a horn. Its relatively broad skull had a short crest or frill on the back.

Al Lakusta, a Grande Prairie science teacher found the bonebed along Pipestone Creek in 1973. The bonebed has extreme signi cance because of its density of disarticulated skeletons. It contains up to 100 bones per square meter. 3500 bones, and over 20 skulls or partial skulls have been collected from the site.

MUSIC IS MY LIFE Bob Marley REGGAE Silver Coin $1 Fiji 2012

Music is an art in all of its facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual. The Fiji has released a colorized coin series 'Music is My Life' and this coin is dedicated to the famous Reggae.

REGGAE

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.

Reggae is most easily recognized by the rhythmic accents on the off-beat, usually played by guitar or piano (or both), known as the skank. This pattern accents the second and fourth beat in each bar (or the "and"s of each beat depending on how the music is counted) and combines with the drums emphasis on beat three to create a unique feel and sense of phrasing in contrast to most other popular genres focus on beat one, the "downbeat".

The tempo of reggae is usually felt as slower than the popular Jamaican forms, ska and rocksteady, which preceded it. It is this slower tempo, the guitar/piano offbeats, the emphasis on the third beat, and the use of syncopated, melodic bass lines that differentiates reggae from other music, although other musical styles have incorporated some of these innovations separately.

Also in this series is Rock N Roll Elvis Priestley and Chanson

2012 Young Collectors Animal Athletes – Monarch Butterfly $1 Coin - Perth Mint Australia

Brilliant orange and black in colour, the Monarch is among the most easily recognisable of the butterfly species.  It is estimated that the Monarch Butterfly can fly over 425 kilometres a day, which is a long way for a creature that is only a few centmetres long!  This amazing feat can be compared to the length of the human Olympic marathon, which covers an official distance of just over 42 kilometres.

The Monarch is famous for its southward migration and northward return in summer from Canada to Mexico and Baja California, which spans the life of three to four generations of the butterfly. The Monarch can also be found in parts of Europe, New Zealand and Australia.
The Monarch migration is one of the greatest natural phenomena in the insect world.  No wonder this colourful creature is the marathon champion of the insect world!
 

• Monarch Butterfly Reverse Design
• Australian Legal Tender $1 Coin
• Presentation Card
• Second Release in New Series

 

Monarch Butterfly Reverse Design

The coin’s reverse portrays a coloured Monarch Butterfly against the background of a butterfly swarm and rural scene. The Perth Mint’s ‘P’ mintmark and monetary denomination are also incorporated in the design.

Australian Legal Tender

$1 Coin Struck by The Perth Mint from aluminium bronze, the coin is issued as legal tender under the Australian Currency Act 1965. The Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and 2012 year-date appear on the coin’s obverse.

Presentation Card

A great gift for any budding young collector, the coin is housed in an illustrated and informative presentation card.

Base Metal Bullion Lot - Bronze, Aluminum, Tin, Copper, Titanium

Base Metal Bullion Lot - Bronze, Aluminum, Tin,  Copper, Titanium

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