The Perth Mint and Royal Canadian Mint are offering special coin releases for the 43rd World Money Fair held in Berlin, Germany. Both products are available for sale online for those not attending the fair.
The “Berlin Coin Show Special” offered by the Perth Mint is the 2014 Australian Kangaroo 1 oz Silver Colored Coin. The reverse design features a colored depiction of a kangaroo amid a rural scene of wildflowers framed by hills and trees. This is the design which has been used for the 1/10 oz to 1 oz sized 2014 Australian Kangaroo Gold Bullion Coins.
Each coin is struck in 1 toy ounce of 99.9% pure silver with a diameter of 40.60 mm. The coins come housed in a presentation case with an illustrated World Money Fair shipper and numbered certificate of authenticity. The Perth Mint will release no more than 2,000 of these coins.
Separately, the Perth Mint has also just released gold and silver coins to celebrate Charlie Chaplin. The silver coin features a lenticular design which shows Chaplin’s character walking jauntily as depicted in the 1928 silent movie The Circus. The gold coin is housed in a presentation case incorporating an MP4 player which plays a short clip when the case is opened. I have covered these releases on Coin Update News.
The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a premium version of the 2014 1 oz Silver Maple Leaf, which includes a World Money Fair privy mark.
The coin features the same basic design as the bullion Silver Maple Leaf with a large central leaf on the reverse and the Susanna Blunt effigy of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse. Similar to the premium version coins released last month, these coins are described as premium struck for added relief and greater detail and presented in a reverse proof finish.
The World Money Fair privy mark version carries a mintage of 7,500 pieces and has an ordering limit of 3 per household. Currently, orders only seem to be open to Master’s Club members.
Samuel says
surprised perthmint did not make a special packaged colored horse.
VABEACHBUM says
@ Samuel – I had been wondering that, as well. Now that I think about it, I do not recall Perth making a specially packaged Snake for the 2013 World Money Fair, either. For 2012, Perth issued a total of 5 different 1 oz Coin Show Dragons, as well as their usual 2 oz ANDA product. The 2oz ANDA has continued to recur every year.
Louis says
Last year for Berlin they did a colored 2 oz snake and for ANDA they did a colored eagle (wedge tailed I believe). I like this year’s Berlin coin.
samuel says
just ordered 3, I like the reverse proof maple leaf.
Koichi Ito says
Many more interesting coins? Such as Hungarian 1896 nine ducat gold coin restrike?
ROS says
meh. hate colored coins
Samuel says
maple leaf awaiting stock.
VARich says
Samuel – sent you a note down in HR land
Zeeman says
VARich@ few days ago, u were talking about the HR eagle, and some german dealer, i would like to buy one too, any info, can u sent me a note too 🙂
Koichi Ito says
Dear Sir:
I cannot order collector coins from Lithuanian Mint by credit card from U.S.A.? Since I can order coins from Bank of Estonia and Austrian Mint by credit card but why not Lithuanian Mint?
Samuel says
Rich, i responded there. thx.
Samuel says
Zeeman, it is too late for “best-kept-secret” kind of thing. it all happened in 1 or 2 days after the official release.
fmtransmitter says
What kind of code are ya’ll talking in these days? lol
fmtransmitter says
The modern era code talkers series! lol
Koichi Ito says
I think that colored coins look like a coin from Toy ‘R’ Us? But I like holographic coins from Perth Mint or Royal Canadian Mint.
Samuel says
fm,
one of the “code talker”‘s code.
actually, we meant the thread about the HR.
Ibex says
Any word on the Disney coins coming out of New Zealand ‘Mint’? They were supposed to have been revealed at the Berlin show.
JagFan says
Quick note – thanks to Dustyrhodes over on the reg mintnewsblog site…
Govmint has just released approximately 300 Wedge Tailed HR PCGS PR70 Mercantin Signed this morning…
It was a challenge to pull them up however I tracked them down by putting 2014 mercanti in the search box… I was able to grab three of them and they are currently in stock!
Don’t know where they came from or if there will be more but for those that were looking for one, jump on it quick!
Samuel says
Janfan, thx for the tip!
by the way, r u “Jag-nut”?
VARich says
Thanks for passing along Jagfan – good deal!
CAGCRISP says
I previously bought an ungraded HR wedge for $199. NOW for the same $199 I could purchase a PCGS PR70. Not exactly a happy camper. Lesson learned.
Louis says
Good price on the 70’s. I wonder if this will bring e-Bay prices down.
Samuel says
price ups and downs r very normal for small mintage coins, especially, when u want to be ahead of other people.
Louis says
Talisman just shipped my Zeus!
Samuel says
$139?
Louis says
Yup
Addielise says
They had the 5oz HR silver and the gold in PCGS70 too! But I believe they went really fast.
Ikaika says
I looked at the GM website after I read all the comments. The only coins available are the proof and HR PF69 in PCGS holder. Any info on the 5 oz?
Louis says
I figured the 70s would disappear fast and would have bought more than 1 if I could, but I never even saw the 5 oz’ers. Addielise- Did you catch the price for the silver 5 oz 70? I got an e-mail from them when they posted the graded 1 oz and don’t understand why they did not mention the 5 oz were going to be listed too. It’s hard to just keep checking. Oh well, probably would have been way too much anyway. I will wait for the raw 5 oz.
Ikaika says
@ Louis
After receiving my 1 oz HR from Germany, the WTE design in the 5 oz version will really standout. Might go for that one.
addielise says
It was $799, and it was only after I called and was talking to the guy that he told me oh by the way, we just got the 5oz version in today and it looks amazing. If Perth prices the raw 5oz like their other proofs, I would imagine it’s going to be around $450 USD? So $799 seems pretty reasonable for a graded 70 with the signed Mercanti label. Interesting that Perth did ship their allotment to them already, but don’t plan on selling in Australia and Europe through their website until June.
Louis says
Thanks, folks. I knew GM was going to sell some 5 oz this month and figured they would be graded. In the case of a 70 for what the raw coins sell for, it’s a no brainer. Regular proofs are coming down now, but the hr’s seem to be still going for $200 or so raw. But for the 5 oz, I would rather wait for an Aussie or German dealer and pay something like $450. $800 is beyond my budget and those might be cheaper later too. Perth will not be selling them to us in June, so we will need to check around.
Hidalgo says
Michael, can you provide any information on the Royal Mint’s series of one ounce silver lunar coins? Apparently, it’s the start of a new series, Shengxiào Collection, of 2 GBP coins. The 2014 Great Britain coin celebrates the Year of the Horse.
Thanks.
Kochi Ito says
I also like Zeus Silver and Gold commemorative coins from Perth Mint, because it is high relief proof coins.
fmtransmitter says
OT: govmint has the 5 ounce Wedge Tail Eagle but you have to call and talk to one of their reps, it is NOT on the website. They have them in PCGS HR PF69 for $599-mintage 5,000 I orderded one. Get em while they are hot!
Samuel says
fm, i have a rep called me all the time. but i wont buy the 5oz one.
fmtransmitter says
PS they are on backorder…So is my PCGS70 PR 1 oz HR Wedge Tail..
fmtransmitter says
great samuel, that is your choice, I wanted one so i bought it. I just wanted to share IF others DID want one…
fmtransmitter says
govmint is sitting on 572 NGC PF70 HR Wedge Tails 1 oz, I know this because I saw a glitch in their inventory last night! They are releasing them in batches to keep the price up!
fmtransmitter says
it is a MARKETING firm, and they know how to market!
Samuel says
fm, thx for the tips, please keep sharing.
they know how to market, and we also know how they market. the only problem here is that they are the ONLY seller in US. if not, they dont have a chance.
by the way, my PR70 eagles are shipped today.
Louis says
Appreciate the tip, but I will wait for a better price. These kind of hot issues almost always come down as we just saw with the 1 oz hr.
fmtransmitter says
Agreed, I already have read numerous times how no one wants to use them.
hw says
The Royal Canadian Mint has the 1 oz. Fine Silver Coin – Silver Maple Leaf – Mintage: 7,500 (2014), with World Money Fair privy, available again.