Scottsdale Mint debuts three new additions to its expansive range, including a rare 500-mintage Caribbean special Constantly vying with the Perth Mint on who has the most varied and numerous bullion coin range on the market today, Scottsdale Mint is tipping the scales with some more additions, in both silver and gold. Also dropping is a proof [...]
'We all live in a yellow submarine shaped coin'. The Crown Mint debuts its homage to the iconic Beatles song and film When the conversation turns to a discussion on favourite bands, it's fair to say The Beatles will be at, or near, the top of the list for many. From their roots in 1960s Liverpool, to [...]
The World of David Walliams from Pobjoy Mint concludes with 'Grandpa's Great Escape', the seventh and final issue Along with Matt Lucas, David Walliams is best known for being one half of the outrageously funny TV comedy, Little Britain. Never afraid to shock, it's rarely seen these days, now we live in times when half the [...]
Gibraltar rejoins the Scottsdale Mint's bullion portfolio with its four-variant Perseus and Medusa's Head by Cellini Back with another bullion coin, just a week or so after the launch of its latest Eastern Caribbean 8 issue, is the Scottsdale Mint with a new one for Gibraltar. A prolific producer, Scottsdale has a mix of solo and series [...]
MDM Week: A homage to the world's major bullion coin icons, all merged into a kilo silver cube An unusual piece for todays catch-up of MDM releases, this is one of the producers many dabbles into the geometric dimensional coin genre - those coins that keep a basic geometric shape (cube, bar, pyramid, sphere, etc.), but [...]
The Rolling Stones get their own coins including a coloured silver that wasn't painted black... Bands don't get much bigger than the Rolling Stones, so even in a coin world filled with David Bowie, Elton John and Queen, collectors will sit up and take notice. While those three emanated from the depths of the Royal [...]
Pobjoy and Gibraltar remembers Victory in Europe Day with a fifty pence coin trio After several years of a numismatic commemoration for the centennial events of the First World War, we're now firmly within the realms of the 75th anniversary memorials for the Second. An even bigger swathe of destruction swept around [...]
Pobjoy revisit the Penny Black stamp for the postal trailblazers 180th anniversary Along with the Royal Mint, the British Pobjoy Mint are prolific issuers of the United Kingdoms's seven-sided 50 pence coin. There has been a plethora of different designs this year, with Pobjoy's eclectic mix of nature coins, and the Royal Mint seemingly [...]
The greatest seaborne assault in history was 75 years ago today. A look at the coins issued to mark it. Codenamed Operation Neptune, the largest seaborne invasion in history and the start of Operation Overlord took place on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 when a huge Allied force began the liberation of German-occupied [...]
Gibraltar adds three bullion versions to its Royal Arms of England range An new annual series that launched earlier this year, Scottsdale Mints 'The Royal Arms of England' is to be a look at the heraldic history of the worlds most popular monarchy. More traditional in [...]
