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 [...]
The Royal Mint's seven-issue celebratory journey through six decades of James Bond continues with the 2000s, and Die Another Day The fifth release in the Royal Mint's seven-issue romp through the James Bond movies launches today, and features the 2000s. Each of the seven issues showcases one of the most memorable vehicles from each decade the [...]
Along with the Montserrat coin came the issue for Anguilla. Regular readers will know of my affinity for this island, having lived and worked there in 2005/6, so it's great to see a coin capture the place so well. The boat races around the island (it isn't a big place) were a highlight of the annual calendar, [...]
We recently covered the second pair of coins in Scottsdale Mint's eight-coin Eastern Caribbean 8 programme for 2023, the sixth annual run through this beautiful region of the world. This is the fifth of them, and is for the island of Montserrat, famous for an active volcano that sometimes like to try and kill everyone, the last [...]
Emporium Hamburg's World's Wildlife series returns with a Peregrine Falcon in proof and bullion form Emporium Hamburg has a fine history when it comes to bullion coins, with such staples of the bullion calendar as the Somali Elephant, Prehistoric Life, the African Leopard, and World's Wildlife in their repertoire. It's the last of those that [...]
Tokelau Sealife is a 12-coin series of bullion coins featuring aquatic life teeming in the waters around this Pacific island group. It debuted in 2014 under the banner of Australian producer, Treasures of Oz, with the coins struck in the US (at the Highland Mint, we believe). However, the series was relaunched in 2020 with a revised, [...]
The second Eastern Caribbean 8 coin to be released in this batch is this terrific design for Dominica, not to be confused with Haiti's next door neighbour, the Dominican Republic. Dominica is a stunning island, lacking the beaches the Caribbean is famed for, but replacing them with a rainforest replete with a breathtaking biodiversity. The EC8 coins [...]
A little later than normal, Scottsdale Mint continues to work its way through the eight Caribbean nations that make up what is known as the Eastern Caribbean 8. These island states are linked by a common currency issued through the EC Central Bank, and have been the subject of a bullion coin programme since 2018, all issued [...]
A look at five more designs from CIT's very impressive Spring Launch tranche, including the latest Woodland Spirit, and the last of the Real Heroes Continuing our coverage of CIT's new debuts, we have a better look at five more of them, encompassing an original design, along with additions to two existing series, and new variants of [...]
