June 2025: We've been busy updating the guides and profiles again Just in case you thought I was sitting on my butt doing nothing yesterday, here's an update on some of the additions to some of the existing guides and profiles we maintain for your reference. As I've said before, it's a bit of a [...]
MDM celebrate 50 years of the rock music of heavy metal icons, Motörhead, with a 3oz high-relief silver coin Formed in 1975 in London by bassist and lead vocalist Lemmy Kilmister, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox, Motörhead went on to reinvigorate heavy metal in the 70s and 80s. Lemmy wrote most of the [...]
Prehistoric Life II bullion range roars back to life with the first of three new 2025 designs, starting with the theropod, Carnotaurus Carnotaurus sastrei was a bipedal theropod dinosaur that inhabited what is now Argentina during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 72 to 69 million years ago. Its name, meaning "meat-eating bull," refers to the two [...]
Today's stackable silver bullion range expands with the classic medieval church adornment, the Gargoyle Gargoyles, those grotesque, fantastical stone carvings, are one of the most distinctive features of medieval church architecture. While commonly associated with Gothic cathedrals, their origins predate this period, with some early examples found in Romanesque structures. Not merely decorative, the term "gargoyle" [...]
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's childrens favourite 'Zog' is the latest British literary classic to be immortalised on a 50p coin The Royal Mint continues its celebration of the popular culture of British with another delve into the world of children's literature. This subject has been a big part of a long succession of coloured, themed [...]
The triumphs and tragedies of Ancient Rome and Greece feature on the Lithuanian Mint's latest silver coins Here's another catch-up, this time for the Lithuanian Mint, who've been quite prolific of late with a wide variety of styles and formats. We're sticking to familiar, and popular, territory here, with a selection of three, 2oz high-relief [...]
After two full years at six issues per year, Germania Mint is now kicking off its third tranche of runic one-ounce silver bars with 'Isaz', the 13th of 24 in the series covering the runic alphabet. It's the eleventh rune of the Elder Futhark and means "ice." It symbolizes stillness, concentration, and the qualities of ice, such [...]
A national symbol in France, Joan of Arc (c. 1412 – May 30, 1431) was a French peasant girl who participated in the Hundred Years' War against England. When 17 years of age, she presented herself to Charles VII, the uncrowned Dauphin of France, claiming divine guidance for her mission to expel the English from France and [...]
A steampunk eagle, the Parthenon, and the Tooth Fairy, are amongst an eclectic mix of silver coins from Silver Pours Unbeknown to us, we've actually covered a few of Silver Pours releases over the last few months, but mistakenly had them down as Mint of MK (they do have a strong relationship). Now we've cleared [...]
It's time we caught up with The Royal Mint's latest bullion coin and bar releases, headlined by a very cool Battle of Britain bar While our bullion round-ups have tapered off to a trickle these days (honestly, the work compiling them was too much, especially as they were designed to lighten the load), they are [...]
