As we've often said, the APMEX bullion coin series 'Icons of Inspiration' is one of our favourites. Designed by noted designer Joel Iskowitz, each release in this series cherry-picks a noted pioneer in a scientific field, showcasing their work and a portrait of them. These stand apart for their detailed, packed designs, and for the beautiful [...]
The Royal Mint's 'Myths & Legends' bullion series moves from Sherwood Forest to Camelot, and adds proof versions Myths's and Legends was a new Royal Mint bullion coin series that mined the legend of Robin Hood to produce three designs, ending last year. We'd heard early on that this would be a relatively big series, possibly [...]
Dumbledore continues the Royal Mint's celebrations of Harry Potters 25th anniversary - the first with a King Charles III obverse The third of four coins in a series celebrating the 25th anniversary since the publication of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' is now here, and features the wizard Dumbledore. He follows coins issued last year with [...]
CIT extend multiple ranges with new additions as part of their expansive Winter Launch. here are some of them. As is usually the case at World Money Fair time, we have more coins to cover than is humanly possible, but we'll have a good go using our multi-coin format. We really wanted to have a [...]
Australia expends considerable time and money monitoring and protecting its unique ecosystem, and one of the more impressive scientific instruments at its disposal is the RV Investigator. This 94-metre long research vessel, built in Singapore, was launched in 2014, and used by the Australian Government for oceanographic studies, geoscience, and fisheries research. Packed to the gills [...]
WMF '23: CIT keep up their exacting standards with another varied and impressive Winter Release Here's just a quick round-up of CIT's latest Winter Launch using their always excellent videos. We've already covered their very unusual Spinning Coin in a post yesterday, but as is always the case at the time of the World Money Fair, [...]
Scottsdale Mint's giant 'EC8' bullion program continues its 2022 run with the Montserrat Sea Turtle, and the St. Lucia Couple Scottsdale Mint continues to play catch-up with its 2022 run through its Eastern Caribbean 8 series. Today sees the second pair of designs to be issued, so we've hit the half-way mark at last. We suspect [...]
The Royal Mint returns to Tudor times with a remastered portrait of Henry VIII for its fifth British Monarchs coin The fifth release in the Royal Mint's 'British Monarchs Collection' is here, and launches the series second journey through time by returning to its Tudor beginnings. If you've yet to encounter this series, it is a [...]
Equatorial Guinea's Giraffe bullion coin returns with a second annual issue in both gold and silver The Republic of Equatorial Guinea, a West African nation, doesn't have a huge presence in the bullion market, but last year, Arizona-based producer, Scottsdale Mint, issued its first Giraffe coin for the country. Depicting a pair of the necky mammals [...]
The Aliens are back for round two! Scottsdale Ghanaian bullion series returns with a new design Producers of the industry's most wide-ranging selection of bullion coins on the market today, Scottsdale have coins for everything from ancient history, to the natural world. Issued for nations around the world, and in a wide range of formats, you [...]
