After a two-year hiatus, Numiscollect’s Equinox and Solstice series, featuring ancient relationships to the sun, returns with the Chaco culture

By |2024-09-09T19:26:55+01:00September 9th, 2024|Categories: Culture, History, Coloured, Inserts, Silver, Palau, Numiscollect|

After a two-year hiatus, Numiscollect's Equinox and Solstice series, featuring ancient relationships to the sun, returns with the Chaco culture It was in late 2021 that Numiscollect debuted a new archaeology series, and it was a different to the usual subjects that have proliferated in modern numismatics over the last decade. Rather than the usual [...]

12 Zodiac Signs Capricorn: The Goat 5 oz silver coin (2025 Mint of MK)

By |2024-09-07T15:42:12+01:00September 7th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Culture, Coloured, Inserts, Silver, Mint of MK, Niue Island|

The tenth of Mint of MK's extravagant Twelve Constellations, or Twelve Zodiac Signs series is now available to order, and it's Capricorn, the goat with the fishtail. The tail originates from the Ancient Greek story of Pan, who, while trying to avoid the monstrous Typhon, began to change into an animal shape. He jumped in the water [...]

The Mint of Gdańsk expands its ‘Punk Universe’ range with ‘Dieselpunk’, a steampunk-inspired warfare coin

By |2024-09-04T21:50:20+01:00September 4th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Military, Coloured, Silver, Niue Island, Mint of Gdansk|

The Mint of Gdańsk expands its 'Punk Universe' range with 'Dieselpunk', a steampunk-inspired warfare coin It was only last week that we published our Coin Series Profile featuring the Steampunk series by CIT, but they aren't the only producer issuing a high-end series in this genre. Mint of Gdańsk (MoG) kicked off their range in 2021 [...]

Bigfoot 1 oz silver coin (2024 Rogue’s Island Mint)

By |2024-08-26T11:34:59+01:00August 23rd, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Culture, Coloured, Silver, Niue Island, Rogues Island Mint|

Rogue's Island Mint are showing their fascination for the underbelly of our world's fauna, with a coin depicting one of the most popular cryptids of them all - Bigfoot. This is similar in conccept to Melbourne Coins Fact or Fiction series, which has seen a pair of issues so far, with a Patchwork Platypus, and a [...]

Journey Around the World: London 3 oz silver coin (2024 Czech Mint)

By |2024-08-23T14:23:51+01:00August 23rd, 2024|Categories: Architecture, Quicklooks, Culture, Coloured, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|

It's always great to see the debut issue in a new series from the Czech Mint, who, like the Mint of Poland, have quite an outward looking policy when it comes to subjects. This time we have quite a rarity in that it's a three-ounce silver range, bigger than the mints usual offerings. The series of six coins [...]

Major League Baseball comes to Agoro with a new coloured silver logo coin

By |2024-08-22T16:59:46+01:00August 22nd, 2024|Categories: Coloured, Sport, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint/Agoro|

Major League Baseball comes to Agoro with a new coloured silver logo coin The oldest major professional sports league in the world, Major League Baseball is one of the four big leagues in US sport, along with the NFL (football), NHL (ice hockey), and the NBA (Basketball). It's made up of 30 teams (1 in [...]

Sherlock Holmes ‘A Study in Scarlet’ reveals itself on a new pair of silver coins from Mint of Gdansk

By |2024-08-22T22:28:00+01:00August 21st, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Movies & TV, Coloured, Inserts, Silver, Niue Island, Mint of Gdansk|

Sherlock Holmes ‘A Study in Scarlet’ reveals itself on a new pair of silver coins from Mint of Gdansk A literary legend, British author Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, has captured the imagination of readers since he first appeared in 1887. Over the next four decades, a total of 4 novels, and 56 short [...]

Star Trek: USS Enterprise NCC-1701D 1 oz silver coin (2024 Agoro by NZ Mint)

By |2024-08-20T11:37:14+01:00August 20th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Movies & TV, Coloured, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint/Agoro|

The third in the Agoro’s ‘Star Trek Vehicles’ range of one-ounce silver coins is out now, and after the original Starship Enterprise, and Deep Space 9, we're seeing possibly the most popular vessel in all of Star Trek canon, the USS Enterprise D. This ship debuted in the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation back [...]

Mint of MK adds Bone Demons, Norse goddesses, witches, and a flat earth coin for those who like the make-believe worlds we create

By |2024-08-19T16:25:00+01:00August 19th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Gilded, Science, Silver, Cameroon, Gabon, Mint of MK, The Gold Village|

Mint of MK adds Bone Demons, Norse goddesses, witches, and a flat earth coin for those who like the make-believe worlds we create The Mint of MK continues to expand its broad range of low mintage coins, and in an effort to keep up, we've another round-up of four of the latest ones that caught our eye [...]

Coins Australia and the Perth Mint debut a beautiful five-ounce silver coin celebrating the Chinese classic Dragon & Phoenix

By |2024-08-14T15:44:10+01:00August 14th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Silver, Coins Australia, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|

Coins Australia and the Perth Mint debut a beautiful five-ounce silver coin celebrating the Chinese classic Dragon & Phoenix The Perth Mint has a fine history of releasing coins celebrating Asian culture, not just through its ultra-iconic Lunar Series of bullion coins, but through a wide range of coins covering an equally wide range of styles [...]

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