Chibi time again and these two are the second and last pair for September. This time around it's the second in the Disney Princesses sub-set, 'Snow White', and the second in the Street Fighter sub-set, Ken Masters. There as neat as ever and you'll either love them or hate them. There've been over 50 of these launched [...]
Harry Potter seems to be everywhere at the moment, with MDM, the Monnaie de Paris, the Crown Mint. and the New Zealand Mint all issuing coins for the franchise. Just trying to keep up with who has the rights to what is frustrating enough, but it must annoy some of the mints as well, we'd imagine. The latest [...]
Movie, TV and Popular Culture coin roundup for early September - Batman, Monsters Inc, and head bangers This is our third, roughly fortnightly round-up of coins in the popular culture genre. This has turned out to be an excellent way to corral the ever-increasing number of such coins, which are popular, so worthy of coverage, but time [...]
Star Wars bullion returns today with the new APMEXclusive release of the New Zealand Mints latest. This one is going to be super popular, we think, given it showcases the biggest character of the moment, The Mandalorian. The smash-hit Disney TV series is soon to start showing season 3, so we don't doubt that fans will start looking [...]
Women Warriors continue to hack their way through the patriarchy and this time it's a Disney-free Mulan We've seen a slowdown in the number of 2 oz high-relief mythology coins struck by the Mint of Poland this year, but we're glad to see a few of them are still making their way to market. The Pela-Coins [...]
Korean bullion producer, Daesung Metal, debuts its new half-kilo Klimt coin bar, 'Death and Life' We've seen some gorgeous Gustav Klimt coins over the last few years, from the Austrian Mint's award-winning gold series, to more eclectic products, like Numiscollect's shaped 'The Kiss', but now Korean bullion coin producer Daesung Metal is adding a large, [...]
We actually missed the last pair of Chibi coins released at the end of August, but the pair for early September are here now, so we’ll jump ahead. The first of them is the next Lord of the Rings issue, in this case Aragorn, A popular character, we’d imagine the building hype for the new Amazon prequel [...]
The second of the New Zealand Mint's shaped 'Faces of the Empire' series is already here, following the release of the debut coin, Darth Vader, just last month. As before, it's a helmet coin design, although whether this is the style for the whole series, or just for a few of them, we don't yet know. The [...]
The second Back to the Future bullion coin moves through the trilogy to showcase the second movie. The Robert Zemeckis directed film was released in 1989 and was a hit, coming in at No.3 in the box office rankings that year. It continued the story of Marty McFly and Doc Brown, and it was filmed back to [...]
Soviet heavy tank, the IS-2, is the first in a great new silver coin series called Confrontation It isn’t often that we get a new coin from a new series from a new producer, and from a mint we haven’t covered before, so clearly we’re intrigued. That the coin subject is one I have a passion [...]
