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The World Money Fair is almost upon us, and Numiscollect & Pop Coins tease lots of new additions

By |2026-01-22T12:30:10+00:00January 22nd, 2026|Categories: News Nuggets, Marketwatch, Pop Coins|

The World Money Fair is almost upon us, and Numiscollect & Pop Coins tease lots of new additions The biggest event in the Numismatic calendar is without question the World Money Fair, held in Berlin. This year it will take place from the 29th to the 31st of January, and many of [...]

Mint XXI releases a terrific new range of coins for its winter tranche, including five for history and mythology

By |2026-04-02T07:44:33+01:00January 21st, 2026|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Coloured, People, Gilded, Silver, MintXXI, Samoa|

Mint XXI releases a terrific new range of coins for its winter tranche, including five for history and mythology With the World Money Fair in Berlin fast approaching, we're seeing some of the big guns launch their first big release tranche of the year. One of those we look forward to most is the imaginative, [...]

Christ the Redeemer 1/1000oz minigold coin (2026 Numiscollect)

By |2026-01-20T22:41:25+00:00January 20th, 2026|Categories: Architecture, Quicklooks, Culture, Gold, Liberia, Numiscollect|

I know we keep saying it, but the meteoric rise in the price of gold is going to bring changes to the collectible coin market. First amongst these will be a transition to smaller formats, with the traditional favourite one-ounce coin closing in on $5000 USD in bullion form, it's clear that the number of collectors in [...]

Mint of MK and GR Reserve return to their pirate series with an ethereal Anne Bonny coin called ‘Flame of Defiance’

By |2026-01-20T00:04:01+00:00January 19th, 2026|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Gilded, Silver, Cameroon, Mint of MK, Silver Pours|

Mint of MK and GR Reserve return to their pirate series with an ethereal Anne Bonny coin called 'Flame of Defiance' We thought we'd have a pirate day today, with the coverage of T&S Coin's latest one this morning, and now this unusual piece from GR Reserve and Mint of MK. The latter is well known for [...]

Forget about the rum! A pirate loves his treasure, and the latest silver coin for Niue features an embedded black diamond

By |2026-01-19T09:06:32+00:00January 19th, 2026|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Gilded, Silver, Niue Island, T&S Coins|

Forget about the rum! A pirate loves his treasure, and the latest silver coin for Niue features an embedded black diamond I think we all love a good pirate coin and these historical baddies have appeared on everything from bullion coins, multiple series of them, to some seriously impressive higher-end numismatics. Joining them is T&S [...]

“It’s the greatest coin, people say it’s the best coin ever, and shiny, so very shiny”. Trump is The Punisher on Spectres highly unusual issue

By |2026-01-16T17:59:22+00:00January 16th, 2026|Categories: Coloured, Politics & Finance, Gilded, Silver, Spectres|

"It's the greatest coin, people say it's the best coin ever, and shiny, so very shiny". Trump is The Punisher on Spectres highly unusual issue It's fair to say that Donald J. Trump has appeared on more coins and medals than just about any US President, which given his talents for self-promotion, his cult of personality, [...]

Top World Coins kicks off the winter release schedule with a three-coin release, and a sense of light-heartedness

By |2026-01-15T15:47:37+00:00January 15th, 2026|Categories: Culture, History, Coloured, Gilded, Silver, Ghana, Niue Island, Samoa, Top World Coins|

Top World Coins kicks off the winter release schedule with a three-coin release, and a sense of light-heartedness Top World Coins are the first out of the starting blocks with their winter tranche of new releases, consisting of two all-new issues, one of which kicks off a new series, and a third coin that continues [...]

Future in the Past 04: Genghis Khan copper round (2026 Hobo Coin)

By |2026-01-15T12:27:32+00:00January 15th, 2026|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, History, Coloured, Copper, Hobo Coins|

Hobo Coin's neat copper round mash-up of historical figures and cyborg technology, continues on with the release of the fourth in the 'Future in the Past' series. This time, there's quite the change in design ethos, with the simple portrait on the reverse, and the symbolism on the obverse, giving way to some action-packed dynamism. The end [...]

The magnificent Concorde supersonic aircraft is celebrated 50 years later on a new coin from The Royal Mint

By |2026-01-13T23:17:32+00:00January 13th, 2026|Categories: Science, Gold, Silver, France, Monnaie de Paris, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

The magnificent Concorde supersonic aircraft is celebrated 50 years later on a new coin from The Royal Mint One of the most beautiful aircraft to ever take to the skies, certainly the most elegant airliner ever built, Concorde was a joint Anglo-French project to create a supersonic passenger jet. Remarkably, work began just 17 years [...]

Malta and Germania Mint pool their history and artistic skills to produce the Maltese Ox pair of silver coins

By |2026-01-12T22:51:57+00:00January 12th, 2026|Categories: Culture, AgAuShoot, Nature, Gilded, Silver, Germania Mint|

Malta and Germania Mint pool their history and artistic skills to produce the Maltese Ox pair of silver coins The Mediterranean Sea has one of the richest and most diverse histories in the world. The location of many of the greatest ancient civilisations, like Greece, Persia, Egypt, and Rome, and tumultuous other periods like the Crusades [...]

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