Music Day continues with CIT and MDM heading into heavier rock with Iron Maiden and Motorhead

By |2024-02-26T13:49:27+00:00February 26th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Banknote / Foil, Coloured, Barbados, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Cook Islands, MDM|

Music Day continues with CIT and MDM heading into heavier rock with Iron Maiden and Motorhead We started the day with a look at the Royal Mint's new George Michael coin, but the coin world is no stranger to music, with hard rock/heavy metal being the usual subject of choice. Bands like AC/DC, and Iron [...]

MDM debuts a sublime, fully dimensional silver coin replica of Nefertiti’s bust to celebrate a century on Berlin’s Museum Island

By |2024-02-22T18:00:10+00:00February 22nd, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Gilded, People, Silver, MDM, Samoa|

MDM debuts a sublime, fully dimensional silver coin replica of Nefertiti's bust to celebrate a century on Berlin's Museum Island One of the most famous figures from Ancient Egypt, Nefertiti was the wife of the pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. She played a significant role in the religious revolution he initiated, moving [...]

MDM dives into multiple ancient cultures with Norse, Japanese, and Egyptian themes immortalised in silver and gold

By |2023-11-17T19:28:38+00:00November 17th, 2023|Categories: History, Gilded, Silver, Cook Islands, MDM, Samoa, Solomon Islands|

MDM dives into multiple ancient cultures with Norse, Japanese, and Egyptian themes immortalised in silver and gold Continuing our look at the new releases in MDM's Autumn release, and sticking with the unintentional theme of the week - the ancient world - we have three new releases here, all very different in style, and subject. [...]

Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s amazing Terracotta Army was discovered fifty years ago, and MDM celebrates in silver

By |2023-11-15T13:00:20+00:00November 15th, 2023|Categories: History, Silver, Fiji, MDM|

Emperor Qin Shi Huang's amazing Terracotta Army was discovered fifty years ago, and MDM celebrates in silver We're kicking off our coverage of MDM's new release batch for the 2023 Beijing Coin Expo with, appropriately enough, an icon of China - the famous Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. It was fifty years ago, in [...]

The Robert Pattison headlined The Batman movie gets a three-ounce silver coin bar replete with high relief

By |2023-10-18T23:56:28+01:00October 18th, 2023|Categories: Movies & TV, Barbados, Silver, MDM|

The Robert Pattison headlined The Batman movie gets a three-ounce silver coin bar replete with high relief With a premiere in early 2022, the Matt Reeves helmed, Robert Pattinson starred superhero film, The Batman, launched to excellent reviews, quite something in an industry suffering from superhero fatigue. The film eschewed the usual mass of CGI, and [...]

Martini Cocktail 10 gram silver coin (2023 MDM Wholesale)

By |2023-09-19T19:52:47+01:00September 19th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Culture, Coloured, Silver, MDM, Samoa|

While the term had been around in British circles since the 1790's, the name 'cocktail' was finally defined in 1806 by The Balance and Columbian Repository of Hudson, New York, who stated it is "A stimulating liquor composed of any kind of sugar, water, and bitters.". Since then, it's developed into a huge cultural phenomenon, with bars [...]

In a world of double-giant dino’s. what better than a Double Silver Giant coin? MDM returns with a fourth hybrid prehistoric coin

By |2023-09-18T13:06:21+01:00September 18th, 2023|Categories: Copper, Nature, Silver, MDM, Vanuatu|

In a world of double-giant dino's. what better than a Double Silver Giant coin? MDM returns with a fourth hybrid prehistoric coin MDM's 'Double Silver Giant' series of prehistoric animal coins returns with a fourth issue, and following superb T.Rex, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus designs, we head to the air with Pteranodon. These are similar in [...]

Popeye joins the shaped coin market, along with new Kung Fu Panda, Pennywise, and Ghostbusters releases

By |2023-08-29T20:45:24+01:00August 29th, 2023|Categories: Coloured, Movies & TV, Barbados, Silver, LPM HK, MDM, Niue Island, Samoa, The Coin Company|

Popeye joins the shaped coin market, along with new Kung Fu Panda, Pennywise, and Ghostbusters releases With this week's release of LPM's new Popeye coin, we thought we'd round-up a few other pop-culture themed, shaped character coins for your perusal. There are quite a few producers getting in on the act these days, and their popularity seems [...]

Star Trek Starfleet Command silver coin (2023 MDM Wholesale)

By |2023-07-12T20:35:35+01:00July 12th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, MDM, Samoa|

It's turned into a day of pop-culture Quicklooks, and this time we're at German producer MDM with their Star Trek Starfleet Command silver coin, due to ship this month. Despite a couple of recent cancellations, Star Trek is having a bit of a renaissance at the moment, with 'Strange New World's' garnering very positive reviews, and rightly so, [...]

Spring Launch Special: CIT, MDM and Mint XXI take different approaches to the popular Lunar Dragon coin market

By |2023-05-02T20:59:58+01:00May 2nd, 2023|Categories: Banknote / Foil, Coloured, Lunar Calendar, Gold, Inserts, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Ghana, MDM, MintXXI, Mongolia, Solomon Islands|

Spring Launch Special: CIT, MDM and Mint XXI take different approaches to the popular Lunar Dragon coin market The lunar market continues to be a regular fixture on the numismatic calendar, although less important than it seemed a decade ago. We stopped our annual round-ups back in 2019 after limited feedback on their usefulness, but a [...]

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