Scottsdale Mints 'Great Commanders' twelve-coin bullion series nears the halfway mark with the Union General, Ulysses S. Grant We first had a look at this series back in February 2024, after having seen them in hand at the Berlin WMF, and being suitably impressed. Called 'Great Commanders', this is a twelve-coin series of premium bullion coins, released [...]
Here's a July 2025 round-up of some new silver and gold bullion coin releases from around the globe It's been a few months since our last round-up of new bullion coins, so here's a selection of some of the latest. It isn't comprehensive, as I lack the arm count of an octopus, but they do [...]
Stackable silver bullion adds two fine new designs from South Korea, a Medusa from Coin's Today, and a tiger from KOMSCO Coins Today's outstanding, and highly varied, stackable silver range gets a new addition, and joining them this time is another South Korean icon, KOMSCO, the South Korean mint, with an issue of their own, [...]
Prehistoric Life II bullion range roars back to life with the first of three new 2025 designs, starting with the theropod, Carnotaurus Carnotaurus sastrei was a bipedal theropod dinosaur that inhabited what is now Argentina during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 72 to 69 million years ago. Its name, meaning "meat-eating bull," refers to the two [...]
Today's stackable silver bullion range expands with the classic medieval church adornment, the Gargoyle Gargoyles, those grotesque, fantastical stone carvings, are one of the most distinctive features of medieval church architecture. While commonly associated with Gothic cathedrals, their origins predate this period, with some early examples found in Romanesque structures. Not merely decorative, the term "gargoyle" [...]
It's time we caught up with The Royal Mint's latest bullion coin and bar releases, headlined by a very cool Battle of Britain bar While our bullion round-ups have tapered off to a trickle these days (honestly, the work compiling them was too much, especially as they were designed to lighten the load), they are [...]
The 2024 Eastern Caribbean 8 bullion program had a very late start, but Scottsdale Mint has released them at such an accelerated rate that they've already caught up with the issue of these final two designs, one for the volcanic island of Montserrat, and one for the island I spent almost two years on, Anguilla. Montserrat [...]
Germania Mint's second coloured cast 2oz silver bar series, Gods, has now joined Goddesses in the land of completion, with the debut of the sixth issue. Gods is themed around the male deities in the Northern European mythology of the Norse and Germanic peoples, and much to the mints credit, they've concentrated on some of the lesser known [...]
Scottsdale Mint is powering its way through the 2024 Eastern Caribbean Eight (EC8) bullion/proof coin series, the seventh such annual program since its inception in 2018. The concept is simple. Take the eight island nations that make up the Eastern Caribbean financial block, and each year, issue a new coin design for them. This takes the form [...]
After being relatively quiet for some time, it seems that Star Wars bullion is back on the calendar, with the launch of a new series based around the incredibly popular Original Trilogy, of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. It's of little surprise that Luke Skywalker is the subject, for the [...]
