Le Grand Mint brings its esoteric sense of style to their debut selection of 2024 issues in bullion and proof ranges Over the last few years, German producer, Le Grand Mint, has built itself a reputation for some quite unusual designs, full of detail, and quite different to almost everyone else. The silhouette 'Evolution' nature series, [...]
The Gold Village brings the South American Greater Thornbird and its spiky nest to numismatic life Found throughout South America, the Greater Thornbird is an unusual avian, freckle-breasted, around 20 cm in length, and with a loud song. It got its name from the habit of building its cone-shaped nest in amongst thorny branches, adding [...]
The Lithuanian Mint releases two new coins for the heart and soul. Essentia: Cor, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. One of the more inventive European mints when it comes to national producers, the Lithuanian Mint has a wide range of issues for the Pacific island nation of Niue as well. This gives a mint the [...]
The Royal Canadian Mint continues its long tradition of nature-themed bullion with the second in their Ice Age Giants series of two-ounce silver coins. Launching last year with a Smilodon design, for 2024 we're with another classic beast of the period, the Woolly Mammoth. It's a typical RCM design, with a wide, star-burst border, and some excellent [...]
Korean producer, Today, adds a new stackable with an unusual quirk, and expands two coin series with new issues As we recover from the bug, and simultaneously start to chip away at a huge backlog from the World Money Fair, we're going to rely on this format to do the heavy lifting. We'll be sacrificing some [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Forget Cocaine Bear, Coins Today debuts Coolcoin Bear, a stackable silver grizzly with attitude aplenty Just four days after we looked at the first 2024 stackable silver bullion release from Coins Today, we have a second to marvel over. While that female torso issue was the second in a series, the one we're looking at here [...]
CT's first stackable silver bullion of 2024 adds the female torso to stand alongside the male design from last year What better way to start off our 2024 coverage of the numismatic world than a look at the latest silver stackable from South Korean producer, Coins Today. An expansive range, for which we'll soon have [...]
