"Nooo, Mr Bond, I expect you to buy!". The Royal Mint celebrates six decades of 007 with Little Nellie. Last year saw the 60th anniversary of the first of the serious James Bond movies, back in 1962 when Dr. No debuted to widespread critical acclaim, creating legions of fans that persist to this day. The [...]
It's a snake. It lives in Australia. Those two facts should give you pause for thought, as it's highly likely a nip from it will have you meeting your maker. That is indeed the case, and the Tiger Snake (the name is a clue!), sports a venom consisting of, not just neurotoxins, but also coagulants, haemolysins, [...]
The Perth Mints anticipated Lunar Series III bullion coin series returns with the most popular entry of them all - the dragon Back with a fifth release on their third journey through the twelve animals in the lunar calendar, the Perth Mint has today launched the much anticipated 2024 Dragon coin in their Lunar Series [...]
CIT Autumn Launch Day: A riot of colour, high-relief, the natural world, history and science. And Cowboys... Never ones to disappoint, CIT today launch their last seasonal batch of new releases for 2023, and as always, it's a varied, and very high quality mix of styles and designs for all budgets. Some of the old series [...]
A perennial classic, the Raymond Briggs classic children's tale, The Snowman, has adorned a Christmas fifty pence coin at the Royal Mint since 2018. Not one of the more extravagant ranges, it's always been a simple affair, with a gold proof, a coloured silver proof, and a pair of base-metal coins, and so it is for 2023.. [...]
The New Zealand Mint's 'trading coin' concept makes the jump from Star Wars to Marvel, with 51 new coins Just a couple of months ago, we reported on a new concept issued by the New Zealand Mint. Called Mint Trading Coins, they basically take the age-old swapping idea from baseball and bubblegum cards, and applies [...]
Born in Jamaica in 1805, Mary Jane Seacole was the daughter of a Scottish officer in the British Army, and spent most of her first 50 years in the Caribbean, and in Central America, often providing nursing assistance in the region. She found her way in 1855, to the Crimean War, where she opened an establishment to aid [...]
AgAuSHOOT: Germania Mint brings Renaissance astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus to Maltese coins with a new range After a successful run of coins in their 'Knights of the Past' series, Germania Mint continues its partnership with the Mediterranean island of Malta with a new coin depicting Nicolaus Copernicus. The Polish polymath, astronomer, and mathematician, came to prominence [...]
The New Zealand Mint has been busy this month. Here's a catch-up of their September pop-culture releases It's been a while since we did a round-up of New Zealand mint coins, so here we have the latest September issues. Moving forward, we'll get back to a more usual routine with them. There are plenty of the [...]
The Royal Mint's heraldic Tudor Beasts 10-coin series hits its mid-point, with the Seymour Unicorn Now hitting the half-way mark, Tudor Beast's, the spiritual successor to the Royal Mint's 'Queen's Beasts' series, returns with the Seymour Unicorn. This is the fifth of ten coins in this David Lawrence penned series, digging into the heraldic history of [...]
