King Charles III appears on his first bullion coin with the release of the Royal Mint's perennial Britannia range It isn't long into 2023 that our wait for King Charles III effigy bullion coins has been satiated, and what better way than that most iconic of designs, the Royal Mint Britannia. A staple of the bullion market [...]
Bullion round-up 13: Mint of Gdańsk enters the bullion market. Pobjoy, Germania, and the South African Mint expand choice. The thirteenth bullion coin round-up, and our first of 2023, has a fine selection, a mix of old favourites and new arrivals. The big surprise is the Mint of Gdańsk dipping its toes into the bullion waters [...]
Nature coins are always popular, and there's a huge variety of designs and styles, often of a wildly varying quality, on the market today. There are shaped coins, dimensional ones, and a plethora of coloured efforts, but for us, nothing beats a cleanly struck proof coin that's focused on the artwork, and what better way to get the [...]
The NHS, Flying Scotsman, Windrush Generation, JRR Tolkein, and King Charles III headline the Royal Mint's 2023 circulating coins Time for the Royal Mint to reveal its base circulating coin designs for 2023, so we've popped back from our holiday break to post up the designs for your perusal. There's always been a huge selection of anniversaries [...]
Bullion round-up 12: Australia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Samoa, and the UK, add new coins in our last collation of 2022 Our twelfth bullion round-up was due to go live late on Friday, but a refresh to the site's theme framework meant our attention was occupied elsewhere. It comes with quite a few tweaks, which we'll try to [...]
Just a quick heads-up that, as we suggested, the Rolling Stones bullion versions of the latest in the Royal Mint's 'Music Legends' series is now available to order. These are exclusively distributed by US dealer, MTB (Manfra, Tordella & Brookes), so availability might vary a little from a direct Royal Mint issue, but they should be fairly easy [...]
Bank of Croatia takes the title of world's smallest gold coin from the Swiss Mint with a swansong issue smaller than a politician's brain In their first issue of 2020, the Swiss Mint debuted what was subsequently recognised as the Guinness World Record holder for the smallest commemorative coin in the world. It was an extraordinary [...]
Still rockin' after sixty years, the legendary Rolling Stones are celebrated on the Royal Mints new proof coin range One thing you can't accuse Britain of is being short of musical legends, so you can't criticise the Royal Mint for issuing a series of coins simply called 'Music Legends'. The choice of subjects seems endless, and [...]
That most iconic of coins, The Sovereign, changes effigy for the first time in 70 years with the debut of King Charles III It isn't often that we see upheaval in the Sovereign world. A staple of the precious metal numismatic world for decades, only major events, like a jubilee, for example, ever provoke a change [...]
Bullion round-up 11: Superheroes, Sith Lords, pharaohs, wildlife, innovators, and America's favourite family Our eleventh round-up of the latest bullion coins, and yes, I still hate doing these. The work putting these together is less than doing individual articles for each one, but it's still 13 designs, from multiple sources, with varying degrees of image quality. [...]
