Lucky Dragon 04 Kuángyǐng one-ounce coloured silver bar (2025 Scottsdale Mint)

By |2025-04-14T18:34:14+01:00April 14th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Culture, Coloured, Scottsdale Mint|

As we reported a few days ago, the new five-bar range from Scottsdale Mint, called 'Lucky Dragon', sees the fourth issue drop today. The bars are released every week, for five weeks, and only sold for that week. The mintage is capped at whatever the orders are for that week.The fourth is called Kuángyǐng, and is yet another [...]

Lucky Dragon 03 Tianyi one-ounce coloured silver bar (2025 Scottsdale Mint)

By |2025-04-07T22:54:29+01:00April 7th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Culture, Coloured, Scottsdale Mint|

A few days ago, we reported on a new five-bar range from Scottsdale Mint with a rather intense release schedule. Called 'Lucky Dragon', the bars are released every week, for five weeks, and only sold for that week. The mintage is capped at whatever the orders are for that week. The third came out today (above), and [...]

Lucky Dragon one-ounce coloured silver bar (2025 Scottsdale Mint)

By |2025-04-07T22:58:00+01:00April 3rd, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Culture, Coloured, Scottsdale Mint|

We've been covering Scottsdale Mint's ever-expanding range of coloured, one-ounce, minted silver bars for a while now, as we feel they do have some crossover with the coin market, having a reliance on artistic design. This particular range encompasses quite a few different themes, and we collected them all into one of our Bullion Profiles, so feel free [...]

The Royal Mint’s ‘Queens Beasts Completer’ coins make the transition to gold and silver bullion bars

By |2025-03-12T17:05:53+00:00March 12th, 2025|Categories: Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Gold Bar, Silver Bar, History, Gold, Royal Mint|

The Royal Mint's 'Queens Beasts Completer' coins make the transition to gold and silver bullion bars From 2016 to 2021, the Royal Mint ran a programme of bullion coins called 'The Queen's Beasts', featuring representations of ten heraldic animals originally sculpted by James Woodford RA for the coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II, held in [...]

Le Grand Mint adds two new gold and silver minted bar designs – The Eagle and the Serpent, and Fors Fortuna

By |2025-03-07T12:43:27+00:00March 7th, 2025|Categories: Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Gold Bar, Culture, Silver Bar, Nature, Le Grand Mint|

Le Grand Mint adds two new gold and silver minted bar designs - The Eagle and the Serpent, and Fors Fortuna Along with a fine and uniquely designed range of proof and bullion coins, Le Grand Mint also produces some neat minted bars, something we haven't covered a lot of in the past, but we've been [...]

Maciej Mańkowski Butterfly I 2 oz cast silver bar (2025 Goldenmark)

By |2025-01-28T19:35:14+00:00January 28th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Bullion, Silver, Germania Mint|

Another newish release in Germania Mint's 2oz coloured cast bar program is this beautiful bar adorned with the art of Polish experimental photographer, Maciej Mańkowski. This artist uses daggeography, which, through the mix of oxidising and colouration, gives an intensely shiny backdrop to the image. The bar is called Butterfly I, and is a beautiful, really showing off [...]

Valentines Day range of 1 oz silver bars (2025 Scottsdale Mint)

By |2025-01-16T20:31:40+00:00January 16th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Cast/Minted Bar, Culture, Bullion, Coloured, Silver, Scottsdale Mint|

Just a quick heads up that we've updated our comprehensive Bullion Profile of Scottsdale Mint's coloured minted bullion bars to include the new range of eleven bars themed around the upcoming Valentine's Day. There's around 60 different designs in the range to date, and we expect many more as the year progresses. These are cheap and simple [...]

A ginger in the Big Apple rounds out Pik Coin’s pretty ‘Cats in the City’ trilogy of 100-gram cast silver bars

By |2024-12-04T14:15:50+00:00December 4th, 2024|Categories: Cast/Minted Bar, Nature, Silver, PiK Coins|

A ginger in the Big Apple rounds out Pik Coin's pretty 'Cats in the City' trilogy of 100-gram cast silver bars Back in July, we covered the first of PiK Coin's new three-piece series of 100 gram cast bars, called 'Cats in the City'. That one depicted a coloured image of a British Shorthair cat [...]

The most varied selection yet in our weekly look at some of the new coin releases (Week 47, 2024)

By |2024-11-24T19:47:42+00:00November 24th, 2024|Categories: Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Culture, Coloured, Nature, Gilded, Silver, Cameroon, Cook Islands, CIT Coin Invest, Germania Mint, Mint of MK, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|

The most varied selection yet in our weekly look at some of the new coin releases (Week 47, 2024) A bit later than normal, here's our weekly round-up of some of the more interesting releases that have come to our attention over the last week. We should have been live on Friday, but we had a small [...]

Germania Mint rounds out its popular Goddesses range of cast bars with Nerthus, along with a beautiful Breast Cancer Awareness design

By |2024-11-19T17:33:20+00:00November 19th, 2024|Categories: Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Silver Bar, Event, History, Coloured, Silver, Germania Mint|

Germania Mint rounds out its popular Goddesses range of cast bars with Nerthus, along with a beautiful Breast Cancer Awareness design Sadly, today sees the day we feature the last in Germania Mint's hugely attractive Goddesses series of two-ounce cast bars. The six-bar series debuted at the beginning of the year, and is ending right [...]

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