The Royal Mint marks a century since the birth of Queen Elizabeth II with a new range of gold and silver coins With 21 April 2026 marking 100 years since the birth of Queen Elizabeth II, The Royal Mint has launched a new range of coins in celebration of the centenary. The new range is unusual [...]
March 2026: Catching up with lots of updates to guides and profiles No news today, as I've been updating guides and coin profiles for a few days, and it's a never-ending job as usual. Our Coin Series Profiles, Bullion Profiles, and Thematic Guides are useless unless they're regularly kept up-to-date with new issues, and the chunk [...]
Hobo Coin have done some sterling work with copper rounds of late, releasing some very interesting alt-future-past designs across two series. Their latest issue is completely different in theme, and will surely have considerable appeal to the more traditional numismatic collector.Called Italia, it features on its reverse face the national personification of Italy, Italia Turrita, the latter name [...]
Powercoin's innovative Folded Dreams silver coin series jumps to the natural world with a paper frog One of our favourite series from Roman producer Powercoin, is without question their unusual Folded Dreams coins. These reproduce some of the origami-style contraptions kids make from sheets of paper, and so far we've seen a Paper Airplane coin and [...]
Pik Coin's three-issue Peaky Blinders silver coin series concludes with the Shelby family matriarch, Polly Peaky Blinders tells the story of a post First World War criminal enterprise in Birmingham, England. Named after the razor blades embedded in the peaks of their flat caps, the family enterprise tries to dominate the alcohol, betting, and other [...]
Nobody does a set series like the Czech Mint, who have a fine history of issuing themed collections of mainly silver coins. We've covered quite a few of them here, like Prehistoric World, Armoured Vehicles, and Inventions of Leonardo, and the mint has a few in progress right now, at various states of completion. One of them is [...]
Isaac Newton, a genius of the highest order, is celebrated on the second of Numiscollect's Science Explained silver coins Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist who lived from 1642 to 1727, and is credited with laying the foundations for classical mechanics, optics, [...]
T&S Coin's 'World of Stories' silver coin series showcases the fevered imagination of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland First published back in 1865, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, it tells of [...]
The Royal Mint launches the 2026 coin in its flagship Britannia gold & silver range, and this time with a US designer The iconic, and much loved Britannia proof gold and silver range is back with its 2026 edition, and his time it employs the considerable talents of coin designer, Emily Damstra, who has a huge [...]
Powercoin follows their Pioneer space coin with the fascinating 1977 WOW! Signal Following their interesting take on the plaque included in the Pioneer spacecraft that were destined to hurtle into the void, by Powercoin last year, the Rome-based producer has released another coin in a similar vein, this time based around the famous 1977 'WOW' [...]
