Latest Coin Releases
Issues released for January 2006.Alaska
Australia
2006 $1 Silver Kangaro Proof Coin
Collectors have embraced the Royal Australian Mint's kangaroo coins and they will be excited to see the tradition continuing with the latest release in the series. Designer Wojciech Pietranik has skilfully created a moving and patriotic image of a bounding kangaroo with a joey peeking out of her pouch. Mintage is limited to 12,500 coins.
Italy
The Winter Olympic Games 2006From February 10 to 26, 2006 the 20th Winter Olympic Games will be held in the Italian city of Turin.
Minted in proof quality and in silver, the collector coin for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics portrays H.M. King Juan Carlos I on the obverse, while the reverse features a skier during the slalom descent.
Specifications:
Mintage: 15,000
Face Value: 10 Euros
United States of America
Benjamin Franklin Commemorative Coin ProgramThe United States is honoring the tercentenary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, one of this Nation's original scientists, thinkers and founding fathers. Born January 17, 1706, Franklin pursued a variety of interests, bringing new ideas to science and journalism while serving as a leader of the American Revolution. For nearly six decades, Franklin conducted experiments and published insights that still hold true today. The Benjamin Franklin Commemorative Coin Program comprises two silver dollars - "Scientist" and "Founding Father" - available in both proof and uncirculated.
Limit: 250,000
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