The New Zealand Mint continues its celebration of Warner Brothers Studios's 100th anniversary, with its second five-ounce silver coin showcasing iconic movies from the film producer's extensive catalogue. The first of them was a neat 'Singing in the Rain' coin, which exhibited a classic look, and the NZ Mint's customary high-quality presentation. This second coin, despite also weighing [...]
From hunting Romans to stalking a silver coin, the Judean Sicarii are the third in the Assassin's series A cool theme for a coin series, the world of assassination has always drawn attention, not just from the usual conspiracy theorists, but from historians, who understand the sheer weight of impact a few can have on the [...]
The New Zealand Mint expands its offerings in the pop-culture coin genre, and there's more to come It's been a while since we did a multi-coin look at the copious output emanating from the New Zealand Mint, although we have been covering quite a few in our Quicklooks of late. We know the whole pop-culture and [...]
The fourth of twelve coins to be released this year in the Lithuanian Mint's 'World of Cryptids' series will be available to buy shortly, and features a South American creature - the Curupira. We're huge fans of this series, with its very distinctive artistic flair. So much so, in fact, that we've knocked up a Coin Series Profile [...]
Scottsdale Mint completes its 2022 run in its epic Biblical Series, and we've fully revised our Coin Series Profile of the range Certainly one of the most ambitious coin series we've seen in our time, Scottsdale Mint, back in 2015, committed to a 60-coin, 10-year release program for its Biblical Series. Each of the two-ounce antiqued [...]
An illustration of the Eastern Rosella by noted ornithologist, John Gould, inspires Downies new proof silver coin We haven't had a look at Downie's issues in some time, which is odd as we're fans of many of their issues, like Deadly & Dangerous, and the very neat, Australia at Night series. Both those series are nature [...]
Muhammad Ali, that tour-de-force of boxing, hits the bullion world with a new range of coins One of the most instantly recognisable athletes in world history, not just in his own sport, but in any of them, Muhammad Ali delighted boxing fans for decades. Known for his combination of skill and power in the ring, and [...]
Amazing Animals, a coin series showcasing spectacular fauna, returns with that most extravagant of birds, the Peacock After an excellent debut last year with a beautifully realised chameleon design, Numiartis's 'Amazing Animals' series returns with a second issue, moving from the reptilian world, to the avian one. This is a series highlighting the vibrancy of the [...]
The Mint of Gdańsk continues to work its way through the hugely popular fantasy 'The Witcher' novels of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski with the launch of the fifth 2 oz silver coin of the eight that will make up the set. This format isn't the only one in the range, as there are one-kilo silver coins, and a proof [...]
The 18th century world of Chinese Tangram puzzles come to numismatics with Art Mint's playable silver coin Consisting of seven flat polygonal pieces, tangram is what is called a 'dissection puzzle' - one whose pieces can be recombined in different ways to form new shapes. Popularised in late-18th century China, although perhaps having its origins as early [...]
