AgAuSHOOT: 2022 Wild Five – Hippopotamus (Pobjoy Mint) Better late than never, as the old saying goes, here's our next photoshoot of a coin we've been loaned, this time by the fine folks at Pobjoy Mint again. Our last shoot was a Pobjoy coin, from their Queen's Beasts series, and we'd decided to finally get some [...]
Pobjoy follows 2019's 'Big 5' 2oz silver coin series with 'Big Cats of the World'. An interesting series that emanated from the Pobjoy Mint last year, the African Big Five took a stylised look at the fabled quintet. Struck to a proof finish in two ounces of fine silver, they were [...]
Angry Birds, a heatwave and a few days off Just to let you know, we're taking a few days off. With the heat here reaching record highs and not having had a break for what seems like an epoch, we're going to have a recharge. We should be back early [...]
Pobjoy Mint wraps up its stylised African Big Five high relief silver coin series with the Cape Buffalo The African Big Five are a relatively popular choice of subject for nature coins over the last few years. Not common, but not rare. It's easy to see why given these are the beasts [...]
Pobjoy Mint debuts an innovative cupro-nickel Angry Birds coin for Sierra Leone We don't normally cover base metal coins unless they're a little unusual and this new issue from the British Pobjoy Mint is one the kids will find particularly interesting. Featuring the smash-hit videogame Angry Birds, it depicts the angriest of [...]
