The Royal Mint has partnered with CME Group to build and launch a digitized gold offering called Royal Mint Gold.

The Pobjoy Mint celebrates the southern elephant seal on its newest colorful titanium coin. The £2 coin was issued for South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands.

Bloomberg News reports gold's performance is maintaining its string of consecutive weekly losses, the longest decline in more than a year.

World mints offered a continuing bevy of silver and (to a much lesser degree, gold) bullion coins with boutique designs in 2016.

Also this week, readers enjoyed posts about an experimental coin struck on a glass planchet and what to expect from the rare coin market in 2017.

Changes in 2006 to Mint terminology and the hobby’s use an unofficial term create confusion about bullion and collector versions of silver American Eagles.

The Royal Mint has created a partnership with the World Platinum Investment Council to issue platinum bullion, which could include bars or coins, or both.

The price of one ounce of gold stood at $1,163.10 at 12:13 p.m. ET on Dec. 14. That's about $200 less per ounce than gold's high point this year.

Six gold bars from 34.94 ounces to 327.97 ounces that were salvaged from the 1857 sinking of the SS Central America will cross the auction block Jan. 5.

The U.S. Mint sold nearly 9.2 million fewer American Eagle silver dollar bullion coins in 2016 than it did in 2015, a record year with 47 million coins sold.

Gainesville Coins plans an exclusive new silver bullion Angel series, with its first issue the 2017 $1 coin presenting the Guardian Angel.

The organization that sets Sharia law's financial standards recently opened up gold-investing opportunities, and it could be huge for the market.

On the whole, 2016 is well-ahead of 2015 and 2014 in terms of total ounces of American Eagle gold bullion sold.