'Icons of Innovation' bullion coin series from APMEX launches with the 'father of modern science', Galileo It isn't just the fictional world of H.P. Lovecraft thats getting the bullion coin treatment at APMEX as the US-based mega-'dealer has also launched a very pretty new coin series based firmly in reality. 'Icons of Inspiration' will look at [...]
Royal Australian Mint launches a beautiful new 'Coat of Arms' bullion coin series in gold and silver The Royal Australian Mint is really starting to flex its muscles in the bullion coin market, after a few years of growing their presence with a succession of impressive designs. Their Lunar Range, Great White Shark, Dolphin Series, and [...]
APMEX tiptoes through the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft with its first Cthulhu bullion coin release The tortured mind of Howard Phillips Lovecraft brought forth one of the most vivid and unusual fictional universes in the history of literature. The Cthulhu Mythos spans billions of years and is populated by creatures of almost unimaginable size [...]
That perennial favourite of the bullion coin world, the Royal Mint's Britannia, now has a baby brother in its cheapest form. The silver coin, recently upgraded with a new picosecond laser finish, rarely dips below an ounce in weight. Given the low price of silver and the diminishing returns of smaller fractionals, it's hardly surprising, but as [...]
The Perth Mint's pretty 'Double Dragon' coin returns for a third year with a timely ten-ounce silver bullion variant, exclusively from LPM. The design first appeared in 2019 in one-ounce bullion form, and returned last year as a proof coin, but with just 888 being minted, this chunky ten-ounce 0.9999 silver bullion variant may well be the most [...]
Innovative Australian Shipwrecks bullion series wraps up with the tragic tale of the Zeewijk We're sad to say that the Royal Australian Mint's very neat 'Australian Shipwrecks' series has wrapped up with its fourth and final release. The first triangular bullion coins we've seen to date, each coin tells the story of one of the many [...]
The recent release of the third of the Royal Mint's Music Legends coins, this time starring the legendary David Bowie, helped cement the series as one of the more popular coin ranges of 2020. Following Queen and Elton John, the Bowie coin had a great design and seems to have sold very well. Both of the earlier [...]
Scottsdale wraps up its 2020 EC8 program with the double release of Anguilla and St. Lucia Not as late as we feared after a pandemic laden 2020, Scottsdale Mint wraps up last years Eastern Caribbean 8 bullion coin series with the dual release of the final two entrants, Anguilla and St Lucia. We've covered these extensively [...]
Perth Mints 'Zeus' bullion coin returns in gold form for the first time, and a pair of five ounce silvers We've already covered LPM and the Perth Mint's excellent re-release of the seminal debut 'Gods of Olympus' coin in bullion form last year, when the 2oz numismatic original came back to market in one ounce form [...]
Holy investment opportunity, Batman!! The Dark Knight hits the bullion market with a new gold and silver coin With the big success of Star Wars and Disney bullion coins, the New Zealand Mint is now trying its hand at shoehorning its many Warner Brothers licences into the market as well. It's a good idea. The Perth [...]
