Base Metals Bullion

Saturday, September 1, 2012

2013 New Century Snake Dance China Coin / Medal

The Design: Tong Youming

Diameter: 120mm,

Material and Colour: Yellow Copper

Quantity: 800 only
Positive Figure: Snake Dance Money Maps and topic text
Back the Figure: Ganzhi Snake Fig.
Casting: Shanghai New Century

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Celebrate Australia – World Heritage Sites – Lord Howe Island Group 2012 $1 Coin at The Perth Mint

World Heritage Site Design
Lord Howe Island Group Reverse
‘P’ Mintmark
Australian Legal Tender
Eye-Catching Presentation Card
Available Individually or in a Five-Coin Collection with Bonus Album

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.

Lord Howe Island Group Reverse

Struck from aluminium bronze, the coin’s coloured reverse represents the Lord Howe Island Group’s stunning landscape and features the Sooty Tern, a native seabird.

‘P’ Mintmark

The coin’s reverse 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

The 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 Wallandra Lakes Region, Kakadu National Park, Fraser Island and Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

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

Monday, May 7, 2012

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.