WHEN IS A DESIGN NOT A DESIGN There's an interesting thread over at the Silver Stackers forum regarding the mineral insert in a Mineral Arts Hogwarts coin and one worth highlighting because of the wider implications. What we call art-architectural coins are without doubt one of the highlights of modern numismatics. Employing [...]
Not so much in the way of nuggets this week as we've been busy with back-end stuff agin, tidying up more guides to bring them up to date and be more readable. We're going to continue doing this, as well as adding more bullion coin guides instead of the numismatic-orientated Coin Series Profiles over the next [...]
It's the third of June and time, although a day earlier than usual, for our latest weekly news nuggets roundup of rumours, releases and site updates, etc. We don't go into great depth here but hopefully you'll find some bits of interest. This week the news that the Royal Canadian Mint are on the verge of [...]
Obviously lots of little stories don't warrant a full, and often time-consuming post, so hopefully, every Sunday we'll do a little news nugget round-up of the week with all the bits of news we accumulate. A mix of new coin updates, mint reports and variants, site updates and additions. No doubt the variety will increase in [...]
Obviously lots of little stories don't warrant a full, and often time-consuming post, so hopefully, every Sunday we'll do a little news nugget round-up of the week with all the bits of news we accumulate. This is the first one and is a mix of new coin updates, mint reports and variants. No doubt the variety [...]
Could it be that the Perth Mint is clearing out some of the old coin ranges in a move to something new? In the last couple of days the mint has announced that three of its long-running series are to come to their end. With the market leaning more towards the unusual and innovative at one [...]
In what has come as a little of a surprise in the current market, the Royal Mint has announced that for the first time it has sold-out of bullion coins from its Lunar Shēngxiào Collection. It's only the third release in its twelve-coin lunar cycle, but the coin has been well recieved and in conjunction with [...]
Our bullion sales charts have been updated to include the January figures from the Perth and United States Mints, as well as the numbers for the third quarter of 2015 from the Royal Canadian Mint who lag a long way behind the others in publishing figures. As usual there are a few comments on the numbers. [...]
We've just updated the bullion sales graph's for the United States and the Perth Mint to round out 2015. Unfortunately, the figures for the Royal Canadian Mint have only been published for the second half of last year, so they lag behind somewhat. We've made a few comments over there, but the graphs will give you a [...]
A wildly variable two months has shown some mixed fortunes and some real surprises. Perth Mint gold sales are ballpark with both 2013 and 2014, October sales sitting bang centre of numbers from the last couple of years. The previous trend has been for November sales to taper off, but we'll have to wait to see if 2015 follows [...]
