You don't have to take magic mushrooms to see the ones on Mint of MKs latest silver coin issue glow when the lights go out... Who hasn't heard of shrooms? Magic mushrooms have been an ever-present part of the popular culture movement since the 1960s, but their actual use goes back further - far, far, further. [...]
One of nature's finest aerial hunters, the dragonfly, is cast in silver as a new coin for the Republic of Cameroon It's hard not to look on in wonder at the aerobatics of the dragonfly. Able to propel itself in six directions almost instantly (including backwards), they can pull 9g in a turn, hit over 50 [...]
MK's two-ounce silver Buddha coin returns with almost 12 ounces of copper in tow, and an expanded diameter Back in March of this year, the Mint of MK launched a two-ounce silver coin depicting the Buddha in meditation. It was designed in the same ilk as the gigantic, copper-zinc-silver hybrid, 1,000 Armed Bodhisattva, which had a 188 [...]
Ukraine continues to draw numismatic support for its defence, with issues from Mint XXI and T&S Coin The war in Ukraine rumbles on, with the Ukrainian people still fighting the good fight to get back their country from a completely unnecessary invasion by the Russian Federation. Rapidly heading toward 900 days since it started, the [...]
Mint of MK continues to expand their eclectic coin range with spiders, voodoo, aquatic tunes, and a short rider The Mint of MK's highly varied range of low mintage numismatics is continuing faster than we can keep up, so e've decided to do another round-up of four of the latest ones. We've got voodoo, spiders, medieval European [...]
It was only a couple of days ago that we did a round-up of an unusual batch of new issues by World Coin Appreciation, and as is typical, they release a new version of one of them right after...One of our favourites of the batch was a dimensional revolver coin, issued for Cameroon, and tipping the scales at [...]
Silver foil coins are back in style with a 12-piece Zodiac Series from eDonnaDesign inspired by Czech artist, Alphonse Mucha It was only a few years ago that we started to see a big uptick in the number of silver foils being released, and almost as suddenly, they tapered off. We have a collection of Foil [...]
World Coin Appreciation, the Chinese producer of a diverse range of numismatics, continues with another batch of eclectic releases World Coin Appreciation is one of those producers that likes to experiment. We've had coins shaped like cassette tapes, three millennia old Chinese masks, painted skateboards, and iconic German pistols, along with some more traditional pieces. They've [...]
Rogue's Island Mint joins the food coin genre with the launch of a cleverly shaped donut coin Of all the genres in modern numismatics, perhaps food has brought the most unusual ideas to the party. We've had scratch-and-sniff pizza, a bowl of instant noodles, Haribo Bears, and a $130,000 fried egg, for example, and now Rogue's [...]
The Legend of Robin Hood returns to numismatics with a detail-packed, high-relief silver issue from T&S Coin Robin Hood has been a cultural legend in England for centuries, but has travelled far and wide since Victorian times. The story of a man giving up wealth to fight injustice, literally robbing the rich to feed the poor, [...]
