The pantheon of Norse gods are featured on a new range of minted bars in gold and silver at The Royal Mint There seems to be an increasing interest in cast and minted bars from the major mints, as well as from independent producers, and the Royal Mint has shown a particular penchant for the minted [...]
The Royal Mint launches Steppe Mammoth, the first of three 50p coins in its latest foray into the prehistoric world There's no finer start to a week than a prehistoric animal coin, and it's The Royal Mint doing the honours this time around. The mint's 'Tales of the Earth' program started in 2020 with a series [...]
Here's a collation of some of the new bullion coin releases from around the world (Week 42, 2024) We've been having some success with our weekly round-up of new coin releases on Fridays, and we used to do similar things last year with bullion coins, so I've decided to continue with similar weekly bullion collections on [...]
The Royal Mint's 'Myths & Legends' bullion series continues its telling of Beowulf with 'Grendel's Mother' in silver and gold The Royal Mint’s ‘Myths & Legends’ series has appeared in sets of three, with Robin Hood, and the Arthurian legend comprising the first two sets. The third is a wander through another medieval classic, Beowulf, an [...]
Big changes ahead for the Royal Mint's iconic Sovereign, with the introduction of silver, and the swansong of red gold for 2025 Sometimes we cover the release of the annual Royal Mint Sovereign coin, and sometimes we don't. There's usually little change from year to year, outside the obvious date inscription, mintages, and prices, but [...]
The Australian Emu is one of the Perth Mint's numerous animal-themed bullion coin ranges, although this one is exclusively distributed by European dealer, Metal Market EU. It first launched in 2018, and 2024 sees the seventh annual design, launching with the same options of gold and silver one-ounce formats, and with the same mintages of 30,000 and [...]
The Royal Mint expands its Tudor Beasts, Shēngxiào Lunars, and Myths & Legends ranges with new proof quality additions Here, we're having a quick round-up of the latest issues from the Royal Mint, which are additions to three of their longer running series. The latest Tudor Beast design is shown, as is the next Shēngxiào [...]
Australian dealer and producer, Downies, have issued the 11th design in their very impressive Australia at Night series. The series depicts iconic, and lesser known, native Australian animals, but in a nocturnal environment. It's a neat twist on a subject that is extensively used on modern coins, and to be honest, Downies have done a terrific [...]
Scottsdale Mint has added the 2024 issue to its long-running Barbados Trident bullion coin, the eighth to date, and as expected, it's fundamentally the same design. The trident is the symbol that adorns the national flag of Barbados, representing the three base tenets of democracy: government of the people, government for the people, and government by the [...]
The Royal Mint's love of childrens classic tales continues with a new Gruffalo coin range It was back in February 2019 that the Royal Mint debuted a fifty-pence coin celebrating the 20th anniversary of the children's book, 'The Gruffalo'. It was the simple tale of a mouse's walk through the woods. In 2005, writer and playwright [...]
