Monopoly has been a popular theme of late, with even the Royal Mint getting in on the 90th anniversary celebrations, but the prime issuer of coins for the perennially popular board game, MDM Wholesale, are back marking the 10th anniversary of Monopoly Jackpot. This is a variant of the main game based around a spinning wheel that [...]
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 [...]
MDM celebrates two centuries of public railways with a silver coin filled with inventive ideas German producer, MDM, has debuted their Spring offensive, and the first of them we're looking at is this neat coin celebrating 200 years since the first public steam railway opened. It was on 27 September 1825 that the Stockton and Darlington [...]
The Paris Olympics and Paralympics are almost over, and MDM have a huge diameter silver kilo coin to commemorate the event The 33rd modern Olympics, this time hosted in the French capital, Paris, are over, and the 17th Paralympics head towards their closing ceremony on the 8th September. It's always a huge event, and Paris is a [...]
Scottsdale Mint has added the 2024 issue to its long-running Barbados Trident bullion coin, the eighth to date, and as expected, it's fundamentally the same design. The trident is the symbol that adorns the national flag of Barbados, representing the three base tenets of democracy: government of the people, government for the people, and government by the [...]
We’ve had Pickle Rick, and now Banana Rick breaks into coins from the mad genius that is the cult animated hit, Rick & Morty The chaotic animated series, Rick & Morty, is back at Glines and Rhodes after a small detour to the Mint of Gdańsk, and the NZ Mint, and it's one of their shaped [...]
Music Day continues with CIT and MDM heading into heavier rock with Iron Maiden and Motorhead We started the day with a look at the Royal Mint's new George Michael coin, but the coin world is no stranger to music, with hard rock/heavy metal being the usual subject of choice. Bands like AC/DC, and Iron [...]
The Robert Pattison headlined The Batman movie gets a three-ounce silver coin bar replete with high relief With a premiere in early 2022, the Matt Reeves helmed, Robert Pattinson starred superhero film, The Batman, launched to excellent reviews, quite something in an industry suffering from superhero fatigue. The film eschewed the usual mass of CGI, and [...]
One of the prolific bullion publisher's, Scottsdale Mint's core ranges, the Barbados Trident launched in 2017, and has just issued its seventh annual release. One of the bigger mintage series in this producer's portfolio, it's been a popular one, so much so, that the 2023 silver coin has seen numbers jump from 30,000 pieces, to 50,000.This isn't one [...]
Popeye joins the shaped coin market, along with new Kung Fu Panda, Pennywise, and Ghostbusters releases With this week's release of LPM's new Popeye coin, we thought we'd round-up a few other pop-culture themed, shaped character coins for your perusal. There are quite a few producers getting in on the act these days, and their popularity seems [...]
