Major League Baseball comes to Agoro with a new coloured silver logo coin The oldest major professional sports league in the world, Major League Baseball is one of the four big leagues in US sport, along with the NFL (football), NHL (ice hockey), and the NBA (Basketball). It's made up of 30 teams (1 in [...]
Sherlock Holmes ‘A Study in Scarlet’ reveals itself on a new pair of silver coins from Mint of Gdansk A literary legend, British author Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, has captured the imagination of readers since he first appeared in 1887. Over the next four decades, a total of 4 novels, and 56 short [...]
The third in the Agoro’s ‘Star Trek Vehicles’ range of one-ounce silver coins is out now, and after the original Starship Enterprise, and Deep Space 9, we're seeing possibly the most popular vessel in all of Star Trek canon, the USS Enterprise D. This ship debuted in the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation back [...]
The 60-coin, 10-year Biblical Series program of two-ounce silver coins, continues its inevitable march to completion with the debut of the first pair of 2024 issues. Scottsdale Mint is maybe on track to finish this hugely ambitious series before the year is up. This new pair represent the 55th and 56th releases to date, so there [...]
Agoro continues the trading coin concept with Harry Potters 'Wizarding World' taking up the reins after Star Wars, Marvel and DC The New Zealand Mint, now called Agoro, debuted their .mint Trading Coins concept with Star Wars back in August 2023, with a 51-coin Star Wars release. The concept is simple enough, taking the age-old [...]
As we reported just yesterday, the New Zealand Mint has rebranded their collectible coin division as Agoro, and the first new issue to take advantage of that is in what we'd argue has been their flagship series for a decade - Star Wars. We've often been a little critical of the mint's poster/comic cover ranges for their [...]
Just a couple of days ago, Forbes published a small article on the Tarantula Hawk, that appeared in my feed for some reason. Coincidentally, the Melbourne Coin Company has just released the first in a fascinating new one-ounce silver coin series called 'Kings of Sting', looking at insects on the Schmidt sting pain index, and the subject [...]
An iconic artist, a chilly dragon of lore, and the most recognisable turtle on Earth feature in Mint XXI's portfolio With the Chicago ANA show coming up, some of the big producers like to release a tranche of coins at the same time, and Mint XXI did so a little earlier than usual last week. We've [...]
A culture and two legendary people from ancient and medieval history are the stars of three new coins from three different producers History, whether it be the great civilisations, epic battles, or pivotal individuals, has always been a choice subject for modern numismatics, which goes some way to explaining why we've covered so many of [...]
The Treasurists debuts a numismatic interpretation of a panel from Lorenzo Ghiberti's almost 600 year old 'Gates of Paradise' in Florence Over the last few years, we've seen quite a renaissance when it comes to coins from Asian producers, not just in numbers, but also in the sheer breadth of subjects. Producers from Singapore, Japan, [...]
