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Australian Brumby 1oz silver bullion coin (2025 LPM/Perth Mint)

By |2025-08-05T11:12:10+01:00August 5th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Bullion, Nature, Australia, Coloured, Silver, LPM HK, Perth Mint|

The spiritual successor to the Perth Mints hit 'Australian Stock Horse' bullion series that ran from 2013 to 2017, the Australian Brumby has today eclipsed its predecessor with a sixth issue. While the Stock Horse was bred for working with livestock, and has a calm temperament, great agility, and an intelligent nature, the Brumby are feral horses, [...]

Silent Film Classics: Nosferatu 1oz silver coin (2025 Mint of Poland)

By |2025-08-04T21:04:07+01:00August 4th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Movies & TV, Coloured, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

Modern cinema is a large part of the current numismatic world, with everything from Marvel and DC, to Harry Potter and Jurassic Park, garnering multiple new issues, but sadly, the early days of cinema are almost completely neglected. The Mint of Poland is attempting to inject some life into the genre with its new 'Silent Film Classics' [...]

Harry Potter: The Patronus proof silver coins (2025 The Royal Mint)

By |2025-08-04T09:31:42+01:00August 4th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Movies & TV, Coloured, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

The final issue in The Royal Mint's four-coin Harry Potter series has just launched, and following The Winged Keys, The Black Lake, and The Flying Car, we have The Patronus, continuing the theme of featuring classic scenes from the uber-popular film series, released from 2001 to 2011. Harry Potter has been a giant in modern numismatics, as you [...]

Germania Mint concludes its numismatic hike through the Mythical Forest with Yggdrasil, the Norse World Tree

By |2025-08-01T20:28:56+01:00August 1st, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, AgAuShoot, Bullion Round, Silver, Germania Mint|

Germania Mint concludes its numismatic hike through the Mythical Forest with Yggdrasil, the Norse World Tree One of the series that Germania Mint created to help expertly build up their Germania World range of silver, and occasionally gold, bullion (which you can see in our coin-packed Summary Bullion Profile of the entire bullion part), Mythical Forest [...]

Bear Trap 1oz stackable silver bullion (2025 Coins Today)

By |2025-07-31T22:18:08+01:00July 31st, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Bullion, Bullion Round, Politics & Finance, Silver, Coins Today KR|

South Korean producer, Coin's Today, is adding a new design to its highly varied range of stackable bullion products, with 'Bear Trap'. This one should be a little more affordable, as it comes in at one ounce of fine silver, instead of the usual two, although it does come boxed, which most of these stackable issues [...]

Mint XXI marks ten years of Ethereum, with a cryptocurrency themed silver coin

By |2025-07-30T17:10:21+01:00July 30th, 2025|Categories: Politics & Finance, Gilded, Ruthenium / Rhodium, Silver, Cryptocurrency, MintXXI|

Mint XXI marks ten years of Ethereum, with a cryptocurrency themed silver coin Mint XXI continue with their unique range of cryptocurrency-denominated silver coins, with the launch today of the 17th issue in their ‘United Crypto States’ (UCS) series. While almost all the range is denominated in Bitcoin, Dogecoin (made more famous by Elon Musk) [...]

The brutality of the Camorra in 1920s Naples is brought to life on the Mint of Gdańsk’s latest silver coin

By |2025-07-29T18:13:32+01:00July 29th, 2025|Categories: History, Coloured, Silver, Mint of Gdansk, Niue Island|

The brutality of the Camorra in 1920s Naples is brought to life on the Mint of Gdańsk's latest silver coin It's a common misconception, no doubt a result of their popularity in modern media, that all the Italian organised crime gangs are the Mafia. That isn't the case by a long way, a with that [...]

MDM celebrates 90 years of Monopoly by bringing its impressive multilayer minting to a ten-ounce silver coin

By |2025-07-28T18:49:39+01:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: Culture, Silver, MDM, Samoa|

MDM celebrates 90 years of Monopoly by bringing its impressive multilayer minting to a ten-ounce silver coin It's hard to believe that the ultra-popular board game, Monopoly, has hit its 90th birthday in its current form, itself pre-dated by the inspiration for it, 'The Landlord's Game', created in 1903 by Lizzie Magie. Generations have grown [...]

One for the Brits! It’s time for tea with the Mint of Poland’s latest off-beat silver coin

By |2025-07-28T13:21:44+01:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

One for the Brits! It's time for tea with the Mint of Poland's latest off-beat silver coin We have a couple of odd coins today, both featuring 3D inserts, and what better way to start the day than a nice cuppa? The Mint of Poland have always had a reputation for releasing some unusual designs, [...]

Numiscollect and Pop Coins issue an official silver coin to mark the 2025 Rio de Janeiro numismatic convention

By |2025-07-25T18:21:08+01:00July 25th, 2025|Categories: Event, Coloured, Silver, Ghana, Numiscollect, Pop Coins|

Numiscollect and Pop Coins issue an official silver coin to mark the 2025 Rio de Janeiro numismatic convention While the World Money Fair in Berlin, and the ANA World's Fair of Money are the largest numismatic conventions in the annual calendar, there are many other regional ones flying the flag for our hobby. Tokyo, Hong [...]

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