The Royal Mint marks the accession of King Charles III with the Royal Celebration, heraldic-themed gold and silver bars Launched today, the Royal Mint's latest bullion bar dives deep into the United Kingdom's heraldic traditions with a design quintessentially British, issued to mark the occasion of King Charles II's ascension to the throne. Featuring the four [...]
Royal Mint launches the 2024 edition of its perennial Britannia bullion coin, with a King Charles III obverse Today is the day the Royal Mint launches its 2024 Britannia bullion coin range in all its expansive glory. This iconic design is well known to collectors and stackers, and for us, remains one of the very best [...]
Now on its ninth incarnation, CIT's beautiful 'Evolution of Life' series of coins takes us on a journey through prehistory, depicting some of the amazing animals that have journeyed upon this planet over the last 500 million years. It does so in smartminted high-relief, using rose-gold gilded fossils still embedded within (antiqued silver) rock,The 2023 issue features the [...]
The East India Company brings ultimate bling to the coin world with a 3.6 kg gold coin adorned with almost 6.500 diamonds The death of Queen Elizabeth II still resonates, understandable given her 70-year reign. It's almost unimaginable to realise the vast majority of the world's seven billion people were born after she took the [...]
With a long history of nature coins, the Royal Canadian Mint has issued some beautiful designs over the years, none more so in our view, than the proof coins, free of gimmickry. What we're looking at here is a coin in the 'Great Hunters' series, featuring the apex predator, Grizzly Bear. It's a clean looking design, by [...]
Also getting a full reformatting was another Perth Mint, Chinese-themed bullion profile - Chinese Myths & Legends. This is similar in theme to the rectangular range we just looked at, but with a greater selection of subjects, not just the typical dragon, especially in solo form.The 2023 coin is called Dragon & Koi, and as you can tell [...]
The Royal Mint's Shēngxiào Lunar series of proof coins roars on with the launch of the 2024 dragon range in gold and silver Now on its eleventh release, at least in proof form, the Royal Mint's Shēngxiào Lunar range gets its first mythical entrant, the 2024 Dragon. A very traditional looking design by William Webb adorns the [...]
Continuing our updating of various profiles and guides from the start on Friday, the first today is Rectangular Dragons from the Perth Mint. 2023 sees the sixth annual issue of these one-ounce gold or silver bullion coins, and designer, Wade Robinson, has done a sterling job with it. To be honest, all six of them, especially the [...]
Our love affair with dinosaurs is well known, so it goes without saying that Emporium Hamburg's 'Prehistoric Life' range of bullion coins has been popular here, a bit of an understatement, in fact. A series of twelve coins issued over four years, the Stegosaurus pictured here is, sadly, the last of them.It keeps all those neat little touches [...]
The South African Mint's excellent 'Big 5' series of nature coins continues its journey through the five beasts for the second time, with the release of the last coin in Series II, and our favourite of them all, the Cape buffalo. Another fine designs, and each carries the same obverse that adorned their respective animals in series [...]
