Scottsdale Mint heads off on its seventh bullion journey through the Eastern Caribbean, and there's aliens and unicorns as well (Week 42, 2024) With the debut of the seventh annual Eastern Caribbean 8 bullion coin program, we thought it would be a good time to catch up on those, and another couple of relatively recent bullion ranges [...]
Big Monday: MDM Wholesale brings it's multi-layer silver coin technique to Mesoamerican history, with a kilogram look at Inca culture The largest empire in the Americas in the period before the arrival of Columbus, the Incas controlled a huge swathe of the western coast of South America, starting in the early 13th century, ending in 1572, [...]
Cast silver weapons coins reach new lengths with MDM's five-ounce silver trident straight from Neptune's hand We've seen some fine cast silver weapons of late, emanating from South Korean producer, Coins Today, and now German producer, MDM Wholesale is joining in with one of their own. There are some significant differences, however, with MDM's offering being [...]
One of the most attractive of Scottsdale Mint's many bullion series, the Samoan Seahorse is, as you no doubt guessed, a seahorse-themed annual release, issued for Samoa. It's only available as a one-ounce 0.999 silver coin, but since 2019 (the series debuted in 2018), there's been a choice of two finishes - the standard bullion (Scottsdale call [...]
MDM dips into its wide pop-culture range with Transformers coins, and a Harry Potter high-relief silver behemoth Pop-culture coins remain extremely popular, attracting a wide variety of franchises, and coming to fruition in an equally wide variety of styles. It's often a testing ground for new design types, and innovation abounds, if not always successfully. [...]
Our latest weekly look at some of the best new coin issues from different producers (Week 43, 2024) It's our fourth weekly look at some new coins, and some slightly older ones we haven't covered to date, and yet again, the market hasn't disappointed. It's another varied selection, covering many wildly different themes, and in wildly [...]
Here's a collation of some of the new bullion coin releases from around the world (Week 42, 2024) We've been having some success with our weekly round-up of new coin releases on Fridays, and we used to do similar things last year with bullion coins, so I've decided to continue with similar weekly bullion collections on [...]
After a fine debut with its Holy Lance dimensional coin, Spectres moves to the 20th-century United States with Teddy Roosevelt's hunting knife Just four months ago, Spectres surprised us with a fully dimensional coin shaped like the famous 'Holy Lance' held in the Imperial Regalia in Vienna. Purported to be, quite incorrectly, the spear that [...]
Star Trek's iconic NCC 1701 USS Enterprise is reproduced as a silver coin from Samoa by MDM Wholesale Seemingly appearing every couple of years, the ultra-iconic USS Enterprise (NCC 1701) appears as a shaped coin, with varying degrees of success. The first attempt was by the Royal Canadian Mint, who released a ten-ounce depiction that [...]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes story gets the numismatic treatment with Spectres new 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band' Very possibly the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes sprang from the imagination of British author Arthur Conan Doyle. First appearing in 1887, he was quite an unusual character for the time, using [...]
