Disney legend Dumbo is 75 and Niue celebrates with gold and silver coins

By |2016-11-05T06:31:11+00:00March 10th, 2016|Categories: Movies & TV, Gold, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint/Agoro|

With multiple releases in their Disney range this year, the New Zealand Mint's Classic Disney range remains the flagship and the most anticipated. We seem to be entering a period where there are many Disney anniversaries coming up and this time around it's 75 years since the release of the classic movie Dumbo. The fifth coin [...]

Monnaie de Paris launches new part-gilded silver coin series of Paris architectural highlights

By |2016-11-05T06:31:11+00:00March 8th, 2016|Categories: Architecture, Gilded, Silver, France, Monnaie de Paris|

The French mint, the Monnaie de Paris have produced some beautiful coins over the years, a favourite of ours being the superb From Clovis to Republic series, along with plenty of others. Like most of the big national issuers of coins such as the Royal Mint, The US Mint and the Central Bank of Russia, the [...]

Pobjoy back with a three-coin Ocean Zones coin set in sterling silver and blue titanium

By |2016-11-05T06:31:11+00:00March 5th, 2016|Categories: Nature, Silver, Titanium, South Georgia, Pobjoy Mint|

Pobjoy continue their relationship using the ultra-strong metal Titanium with the release of a new set of three coins under the theme Ocean Zones. Each of the three coins depicts life under the sea in one of three depths. The Daylight coin features creatures that live at or near the surface of the oceans, the Twilight [...]

Scottsdale’s Biblical Series of antique silver coins continues with the Last Supper, the second of 2016

By |2016-11-05T06:31:12+00:00March 4th, 2016|Categories: Art & Literature, Silver, Niue Island, Scottsdale Mint|

With artwork inspired from a highly regarded 19th century wood engraving specialist called Gustave Doré, the Scottsdale Mints ‘Biblical Stories’ coin series is one of the most ambitious around at the moment. Known for his work illustrating the writer Dante's seminal novels, and for a huge collection of woodcuts depicting scenes from the Bible, Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré [...]

Livingstone I presume. Latest Journeys of Discovery coin features noted British explorer

By |2016-11-05T06:31:12+00:00March 3rd, 2016|Categories: History, People, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint/Agoro|

Journeys of Discovery from the New Zealand Mint launched in June last year and has quickly built up to five coins in number with the launch of David Livingstone. Featuring some of the greatest explorers in history, the first coin depicted the epic explorer of Asia, Marco Polo. The second coin featured one of the discoverers [...]

New subscription series for all tastes at the Royal Canadian Mint for March

By |2016-11-05T06:31:12+00:00March 2nd, 2016|Categories: Coloured, Gold, Inserts, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

Always having multiple subscription series on the go at any one time, no mint uses this way of selling coins as much as the Royal Canadian Mint does. It's a decent idea as long as the collector wants the whole set. The mint gets a good indicator of what collectors are looking for as subscriptions tend [...]

Royal Canadian Mint releases new coins in its Venetian Glass and Geometry in Art series

By |2016-11-05T06:31:12+00:00March 1st, 2016|Categories: Nature, Coloured, Inserts, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

After the launch of a wide range of Superman v Batman: Dawn of Justice movie coins a few days ago, the Royal Canadian Mint have now released the rest of their months output. There's a mix of single coins which we'll look at below, and the launch of several new subscription sets which we'll feature tomorrow. [...]

Late to the party but in with style, the Perth Mint releases Odin, the first Norse Gods coin

By |2016-11-05T06:31:13+00:00February 29th, 2016|Categories: Art & Literature, Silver, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|

Without question, one of the biggest trends in the latter half of last year was the surge in popularity of coins featuring ancient mythology. More specifically, gods. Even more specifically, Odin. Kicked off in style with the superb Legends of Asgard 3 oz max-relief coin from Choice Mint, it was swiftly followed by a nine-coin series [...]

Poland commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the First Drop of the Cichociemni Paratroopers

By |2016-11-05T06:31:13+00:00February 29th, 2016|Categories: History, Silver, Poland, Narodowy Bank|

The first release of 2016 from the Narodowy Bank Polski (NBP) is here and it's a fine debut for the new year.  The NBP doesn't really do flashy coins, rarely even going for colour or gilding, but it does produce some fine product for Poland, heaping much care on the design and quality of its coins, [...]

MCI-MINT releases a Tazerzait Meteorite coin for Niger, the country it crashed into

By |2016-11-05T06:31:13+00:00February 28th, 2016|Categories: Nature, Coloured, Inserts, Silver, MCI Mint, Niger|

A blistering hot day in Tahoua, a region in the west of the African country Niger, and a seven-year-old Tuareg boy tracking a stray goat looks up at the sky and witnesses a flaming ball fall from the sky and impact the ground. It is the afternoon of 21 August 1991, and the Taizerzait meteorite had [...]

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