Scottsdale Mint finally debuts its 2023 Eastern Caribbean 8 bullion programme with St. Lucia, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines

By |2024-01-25T22:12:52+00:00January 25th, 2024|Categories: Bullion, Coloured, Gold, Nature, Politics & Finance, Silver, Saint Lucia, Scottsdale Mint, St Vincent & Grenadines|

Scottsdale Mint finally debuts its 2023 Eastern Caribbean 8 bullion programme with St. Lucia, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines Launching back in 2018, Scottsdale Mint's EC8 programme has become one of the most ambitious bullion ranges in production today. It's composed of eight annual designs, one for each of the Caribbean island nations in [...]

Mint XXI launches ‘The Way to Valhalla’, a twelve-coin series featuring the legends of the Norse world

By |2024-01-25T13:06:53+00:00January 25th, 2024|Categories: History, Coloured, Silver, Cameroon, MintXXI|

Mint XXI launches 'The Way to Valhalla', a twelve-coin series featuring the legends of the Norse world Mint XXI currently have an ambitious series of coins, 36 of them, making up a collection called 'The Great Greek Mythology', and it employs all the producer's talents with high-relief to great effect. The size of that collection may [...]

Numiscollect continues its trek through Lost Civilisations with a stop-over at the MesoAmerican Mayan Empire

By |2024-01-24T21:31:37+00:00January 24th, 2024|Categories: History, Coloured, Silver, Palau, Numiscollect|

Numiscollect continues its trek through Lost Civilisations with a stop-over at the MesoAmerican Mayan Empire The third release in Numiscollect's interesting 'Lost Civilisations' series has debuted, and after Phoenicia, and Babylon, we've leap-frogged the Atlantic Ocean to land in South/Central America, for a look at the ancient Mayan culture. To say that Mayan civilisation was long-lived [...]

Spectres gives us the choice between a punch in the face or soaring high with their latest pair of shaped silver coins

By |2024-01-23T13:55:48+00:00January 22nd, 2024|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Inserts, Silver, Cameroon, Spectres|

Spectres gives us the choice between a punch in the face or soaring high with their latest pair of shaped silver coins Two new issues have launched today from Singaporean producer, Spectres, with wildly different themes, but utilising the same basic format. Both are antique-finished two-ounce silver coins, issued for Cameroon, shaped, high-relief, and with [...]

Pastel Circus: Balancing 2oz silver coin (2023 Lithuanian Mint)

By |2024-01-18T17:51:29+00:00January 18th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Culture, Coloured, Silver, Lithuanian Mint, Niue Island|

Another work from the artist Laimutė Varkalaitė, responsible for the superb World of Cryptids range, Pastel Circus is just as quirky, perhaps even more so. This is a four-coin series, following different incarnations of the red-nosed clown, all of them hinting at a symbolic transformation into a bird. Like we said, quirky... This third issue is called [...]

Goddesses Freya two ounce cast silver bar (2024 Germania Mint)

By |2024-01-15T22:23:49+00:00January 15th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Nature, Silver, Melbourne Coin Co., Niue Island|

We don't normally cover much in the way of cast bars, as we have enough trouble keeping up with coins, but we do dabble when we think it's something you'll like. That's the case with this new bar from Germania Mint, which is designed and presented as if it were one of their standard bullion coins, [...]

Fact or Fiction: Drop Bear silver coin (2024 Melbourne Coin Company)

By |2024-01-15T21:20:51+00:00January 15th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Nature, Silver, Melbourne Coin Co., Niue Island|

As you know, we love a weird subject here, and what's weirder than a raging koala dropping out of trees onto the heads of unsuspecting Aussies? The tall tale of the Drop Bear has been around for at least 50 years, and is a staple of Antipodean folklore, right down to the Australian Museum getting in [...]

Numiscollect dips back into the Fairy Tale world with a fourth issue – Alice in Wonderland

By |2024-01-12T15:41:57+00:00January 12th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Cook Islands, Numiscollect|

Numiscollect dips back into the Fairy Tale world with a fourth issue - Alice in Wonderland That classic mind-bending tale of wonder in a mad world has returned to numismatics with the fourth in Numiscollect's 'Fairy Tales' series of three-ounce silver coins. Alice in Wonderland is a well known literary masterpiece, full of iconic scenes, and [...]

After finishing Allegories and Mythical Forest in 2023, Germania Mint ends the year with the launch of Witchcraft: Seeress

By |2023-12-21T12:09:40+00:00December 21st, 2023|Categories: Coloured, Gold, Nature, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

After finishing Allegories and Mythical Forest in 2023, Germania Mint ends the year with the launch of Witchcraft: Seeress With the finishing up of Germania Mint's 'Allegories' and 'Mythical Forest' ranges, their Germania World selection had shrunk considerably, but fortunately, because we’ve been big admirers of the Germania World range, there's a new addition to bring [...]

The Royal Kraków Mint celebrates a legend of the Wawel Dragon from the medieval history of its home city

By |2023-12-15T21:53:00+00:00December 15th, 2023|Categories: Culture, History, Coloured, Silver, Niue Island, Royal Krakow Mint|

The Royal Kraków Mint celebrates a legend of the Wawel Dragon from the medieval history of its home city Dating back to at least the 13th century, the legend of Smok Wawelski (the Wawel Dragon) tells of a giant dragon that terrorised the city of Kraków, known as a man-eater, but appeased with cattle provided by [...]

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