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 [...]
Spring Launch Special: MDM debuts some of the quirky issues it's known for, and here are three that caught our eye Spring Launch time continues, and we carry on chipping away at the huge wave of new issues. After a look at three from CIT earlier today, we continue with a look at a second trio [...]
German producer, MDM, brings the beauty of the Hummingbird to coins with an embellished 120 mm silver issue In 2022, MDM released an impressive half-kilo silver coin shaped like a peacock, replete with pastel colours, and embedded crystals, designed to bring to numismatic life one of nature's most beautiful animals. The coin's most striking feature was its [...]
MDM pushes silver coin diameters with a reproduction of the 1630 World Map by the Dutch cartographer, Henricus Hondius II The art of cartography is everything that art should be. Endlessly fascinating, historically and scientifically important, maps are a rare glimpse into our past, holding extra beauty today in a world dominated by the brilliance of, [...]
Jules Verne, and his classic 'Around the World in Eighty Days', are brought to life in a multi-part silver coin Not the first time that Jules Verne's beloved classic, Around the World in 80 Days, has appeared on a modern coin, but certainly one of the most innovative and ambitious, MDM's latest showcases both the author, [...]
WMF '23: MDM extend their Harry Potter range with another ambitious multi-layered Quidditch silver kilo coin Despite a relative lack of recent activity, and the lacklustre showing of the offshoot 'Fantastic Beast's' movie series, Harry Potter remains a giant of a franchise, with more activity for future releases in the works. It still remains a big franchise [...]
After a trip to the Vikings for 2022, MDM's shaped helmet coin range returns to Greece with the warriors of Troy The subject of countless books, movies and other media, the Trojan War, despite the relative lack of evidence for its details, has entered popular culture as a pivotal event in the ancient world. Said by later [...]
Sport is a popular subject in the coin world, but cricket and darts aren't. MDM rectifies that with unique new offerings in silver Football, baseball, athletics, and even winter sports are all popular subjects for the collectible coin market. As they're popular in the real world, it's hardly surprising that they'd be good numismatic representation. Most [...]
Those of you enjoying the new HBO Game of Thrones prequel series, 'House of the Dragon' will no doubt wonder where all the coins are. Well, wonder no more, because talented German producer, MDM, have issued a new three-gram silver coin note for the show. Joining a series that spans most of the big fantasy epics, namely Lord [...]
APMEX has debuted the latest in its Caribbean range of silver and gold bullion coins, this time featuring an octopus. 'Caribbean Silver' is an unusual series, consisting of several subseries, each themed around a single animal. The Seahorse was the first, now on its fifth annual release, and it was followed by the Brown Pelican, national bird of [...]
