Agoro continues the trading coin concept with Harry Potters 'Wizarding World' taking up the reins after Star Wars, Marvel and DC The New Zealand Mint, now called Agoro, debuted their .mint Trading Coins concept with Star Wars back in August 2023, with a 51-coin Star Wars release. The concept is simple enough, taking the age-old [...]
The Summer Launch from CIT brings us valleys, steampunk, birds, hats, spinning tops, Santorini, and lots of Iron Maiden Eddies It's time for the eagerly anticipated Summer Launch from CIT, and yet again, they haven't disappointed. As always, there's a mix of additions to existing series, one-offs, and potential new series debuts (CIT sensibly see how [...]
The Royal Mint dives into its historical collection with the launch of a stunning new series, 'The Great Seals of the Realm' Before we had cryptography, secure post, or electronic communications, we had seals. Carved into a solid material, originally stone, but later moving to semi-precious materials like jade and ivory, wood, or even gold and [...]
The Perth Mint has been busy over the last few months with new bullion releases, so here's a quick round-up of some of them Undoubtedly one of the world's premier bullion producers, the Perth Mint has garnered itself a fine reputation for its range of annually changing designs going back several decades. In recent years, [...]
The Royal Australian Mint expands two of its popular nature-themed gold and silver bullion coin ranges with new additions The Royal Australian Mint has been quietly picking up a great reputation for its bullion coin range that prior to 2020 had actually been quite limited. The range has been varied, with a couple of neat naval [...]
Asahi Refining brings the iconic Columbia Goddess to its fully US produced American Reserve range of gold and silver bullion While we don't usually detour into bullion bars very often, occasionally, we see something that piques our interest and warrants further inspection. Such is the case with Asahi Refining USA's new Columbia Goddess bullion range. What [...]
The Royal Mint celebrates the athletes in Team GB and ParalympicsGB with a stylised seven-sided coin in silver and gold The Olympics head to Paris soon, held for the 33rd time in the modern age, and they're joined for the 17th time by the Paralympics. Since 2012, when they were held in London, the Royal [...]
Finally, the last pair of designs in Scottsdale Mint's eight-coin Eastern Caribbean 8 programme for 2023, the sixth annual run through this popular tourist location, has been issued, and there's one for Antigua & Barbuda, and one for Grenada. The Antiguan coin is the fourth Rum Runner design, looking at the island's long history with the rum [...]
The Royal Mint brushes off the dies for the unstruck Waterloo Medal by Benedetto Pistrucci and produces an elegant new coin Back in 2015, for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Royal Mint refreshed the original tooling for the unstruck Battle of Waterloo medal and produced a 250 gram, antique-finished version with a [...]
The Royal Mint employs the talents of Jody Clark for its St George and the Dragon bullion coin range, the first in a new series Able to make a case for itself as being the single most iconic image in numismatics, Benedetto Pistrucci's St George and the Dragon has adorned the British Sovereign bullion coin for [...]
