UPDATE: We're off for a few days due to illness UPDATE: Things have improved somewhat (I did 2 posts a couple of days ago), and I'm hoping to get back to some sense of normality on Monday. Huge apologies for the downtime, but I'll make an extra effort to catch-up where possible, and reply to a lot [...]
Agatha Christie was a master of her craft, and MDM have crafted a masterful puzzle coin to celebrate her works One of the classic literary genres, the murder-mystery, or 'whodunit', traces its origins back to the mid-19th century, with such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It reached a crescendo in the [...]
Asturmint's 'Camelot' series of 2 oz, high-relief coins is up to three issues from the twelve that were originally planned, and the companion 1 oz silver bullion variants have now reached the same level, with the debut of the Sir Perceval coin. The earlier pair, Arthur and Lancelot, also had additional variants, utilising ennoblement with gilding, and [...]
Art Mint's 'Seven Ancient Civilisations' 2oz silver coin collection jumps across the Atlantic to the Mesoamerican Maya culture After wandering through the Middle East and Asia, Art Mint's excellent Seven Ancient Civilisations series jumps over the Atlantic for its one and only visit to the Americas. The Mayan civilisation has its roots around 2,000 BCE, [...]
Comic book child rebel, Dennis the Menace, celebrates 75 years with a new issue from The Royal Mint We wouldn't normally cover two fifty pence coins from The Royal Mint so close together, but this one snuck up on us just a few days after we covered the new Winnie-the-Pooh release, and the truth is, [...]
The Royal Mint has debuted another new series of bullion coins, and it's one that delves into the mythological past of the British Isles. Called 'Legendary Creatures', it will run alongside the mints other new series, 'Gothic Horror', which launched recently with an outstanding Dracula coin. The series kicks off with a classic of the cryptid world, [...]
The Austrian Mint issues Quantum Physics, the 24th issue in its award-winning bi-metal niobium and silver series At one time, the Austrian Mint's annual niobium coin was one of the most popular and eagerly awaited series in modern numismatics. Despite a mintage of around 65,000 pieces, they regularly sold out in short order. While those days [...]
The artistic process has a personification, as the Queen of Creativity rides in on Le Grand Mint's latest silver coin The latest coin from Le Grand Mint has just launched, and is one of the modern classical designs they've built a reputation producing in recent years, with releases such as Freya, for example. That coin was [...]
Winnie the Pooh is 100, and the Royal Mint debuts the first in a three-coin collection celebrating the anniversary The Royal Mint continues its expansive run of pop-culture fifty pence coins with the debut of the first in a new three-coin collection celebrating the centennial anniversary of A.A. Milne's classic children's tale, Winnie the Pooh. Published [...]
Shaped weapon coins reach new levels of esoterica, with Spectres new Dragon Claw Blade Shaped, dimensional weapon coins have come from nowhere to being one of the more inventive, and popular genres in recent years. Several producers issue these, and some are quite extraordinary, encompassing historical weapons like Tutankhamun's blade, and mythological blades of various types. [...]
