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A perennial classic, the Raymond Briggs classic children's tale, The Snowman, has adorned a Christmas fifty pence coin at the Royal Mint since 2018. Not one of the more extravagant ranges, it's always been a simple affair, with a gold proof, a coloured silver proof, and a pair of base-metal coins, and so it is for 2023.. The design is, again, by long-time Raymond Briggs collaborator, Robin Shaw, Assistant Director of The [...]
The Royal Mint launches new issues featuring Rome, Harry Potter, and childrens classic, The Snowman The Royal Mint has been very active of late, and we've covered most of the new issues, of course, but the market is busier than ever of late, so to aid a more complete coverage, we're going to be falling back on these multi-release articles. This time, we'll have a look at three of the mints [...]
The Snowman is back at the Royal Mint with a new range of coins and more Now a perennial fixture on the Royal Mint's release schedule, Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' is back for a fourth successive annual release. Part of the mints ever growing fifty pence media range, this one is quite a bit more restrained than the usual Hollywood glitz, going for a more traditional vibe by keeping a close [...]
The Snowman is back at the Royal Mint for the third successive year with a new design by Robin Shaw Returning for a third annual appearance, Raymond Briggs iconic seasonal tale, 'The Snowman' has become a refreshing holiday coin release in a market overwhelmingly populated by Santa designs. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but a little variety doesn't hurt, and what better way than a beloved childrens book like this one [...]
The Snowman returns to the Royal Mint as it expands its 50p licenced coin selection for 2019 Back for the second year, The Snowman rejoins an ever-growing range of classics that the Royal Mint is putting on its fifty pence coin range, alongside the recent Wallace & Gromit, Paddington and Gruffalo issues. The same range as usual, comprising an 8g sterling silver coin and a 15.5 gram [...]
The Royal Mint celebrates 40 years of the perennial hit childrens picture book, The Snowman First published back in 1978, Raymond Briggs' children's word-less picture book, The Snowman, debuted to critical acclaim. Telling the story of a young boy that builds a snowman which then comes to life, it was adapted to an Oscar-nominated animated short film in 1982. Much loved, especially in its British homeland, The [...]
WORLD OF CRYPTIDS (2023) by Lithuanian Mint For centuries, the weird and mysterious has often been attributed to unexplainable creatures of the night. Regular coin collectors will know they’ve been a rich source of inspiration for some quite superb issues, in recent years, but most of them have been at the higher end. The Lithuanian Mint has debuted a new 12-coin series, apparently all to be issued through 2023, which will [...]
PEZ COLLECTION (2019-) by MTB/PAMP Certainly one of the more inventive candy products released over the last century, PEZ has spawned an entire worldwide collector's market because of the way it is sold and used. With most other sweets, you buy it, you eat it. Simples, to quote a meerkat. Not so with PEZ. The candy is simple enough, just small blocky hard sweets sold in a packet. But then [...]
Santa season continues with PAMP's latest shaped silver coin featuring the beloved character Every year sees a good mix of Christmas coins from various national and independent mints, and most of them have Santa Claus in the design in one form or another. We don't usually cover many of these as they seem to appeal to the gift market rather than outright coin collectors, but this one seems aprticularly well done, [...]
The Royal Mint debuts the first three in a nine-coin multi-year Winnie the Pooh tsunami in gold and silver The Royal Mint continues its dive into the literary world with its extensive fifty pence coin range with the addition of Winnie the Pooh. Coming at the same time the New Zealand Mint also has a four-coin series in progress, it does nothing to help us understand the intricate world of licencing media [...]
The iconic sweet dispenser, PEZ, returns in silver form with a Rubber Duck head A quirky addition to the silver bullion market last year was the Santa PEZ dispenser. The iconic candy, a perennial favourite for over 90 years, was reproduced in silver form. A working dispenser held six pills of 0.999 silver, each of five grams in weight, so just shy of a troy ounce. Each had [...]
Are the kids suddenly into silver stacking? Maybe PAMP's new PEZ homage is the reason >We've seen a huge increase in the number of licenced franchises hitting the coin and bullion world, and fortunately, with a corresponding rise in quality and inventiveness as well. This new bullion release from PAMP is a particularly clever piece of commemorative memorabilia for a product that has long since entered popular culture - [...]
Wallace and Gromit are the latest classic characters to join the Royal Mint’s ever expanding range Beatrix Potter, the Gruffalo, Paddington, and the Snowman are all classics of children's literature and motion media that have enraptured people for decades. What they also have in common is appearing on a shiny piece of metal with the Queens head on the back. Each of these icons has been the subject of [...]
Peter Rabbit is back at the Royal Mint with new coins for the fourth year running The bunny is back for the fourth consecutive annual release of coins celebrating the work of Beatrix Potter. Four coins were first launched to an extremely eager buying public in 2016 and following that with an even more frantic launch in 2017 with four new entrants, and a third set of [...]
The Royal Mint's latest frenzy-inducing childrens literature coin release is The Gruffalo Following The Snowman and various Beatrix Potter series, the Royal Mint today launched The Gruffalo. Based on a 2009 childrens book, it joins those previous issues in adorning a seven-sided 50 pence. As before, the primary issue is an 8 gram sterling silver item with selective colouration, backed up by an uncoloured 22kt gold variant. A [...]
