One of the New Zealand Mint's numerous popular culture themed bullion coins, Pirates of the Caribbean, has just debuted its fifth and final release. It's called 'Silent Mary' and features the Spanish Royal Navy galleon from the fifth movie in the franchise, 'Dead Men Tell No Tales'. Captained by Armando Salazar, she was a feared pirate hunter, but [...]
Eighteenth-century Hanoverian, King George I, adorns the third in the Royal Mint's 'British Monarchs' series The 'British Monarchs Collection' is the latest multi-year programme of proof coins, and will reproduce key coins from four of the major royal families, Tudor, Stuart, Hanover, and the latest, Saxe-Coburg, Gotha & Windsor. There will be 21 coins launched over [...]
One of the few producers occasionally issuing half-gram 'minigold' coins, the Royal Australian Mint started a new series in 2021, called Mini Money, launching with a neat Koala design. It's back for 2022, continuing the series theme of iconic Australian animals, with the Kookaburra. Admittedly, this is a rendered image, but that does look very good. How well it [...]
JVP's Liberator proof and bullion round returns, and it's sporting a new background field JVP Mint is back with the sharp looking 'Liberator' bullion round range that debuted last year. Sporting a 'Punisher'-style skull with a background field covered in barb-wire, it was a striking piece, clean and free of distraction. The obverse was excellent, mimicking [...]
New bullion coin round-up for July, with a first issue for Sierra Leone, and a Dutch Ducaton inspired by the 18th-century original A bit later in the day than I'd hoped (I always underestimate the time it takes to collate these articles), here we have our July round-up of the new bullion coin releases from around [...]
What's new in the world of television, film and popular culture coins? A July round-up of the latest releases Another round-up of popular culture coins, the usual names are in attendance, both producers, and licences. The NZ Mint has added to its Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Chibi franchises, while adding the awesome Rick [...]
The seventh Chiwoo Cheonwong bullion round headlines our latest round-up of new bullion coin releases Back with another fine selection of new issues, our June bullion coin round-up draws from mints all over the world to offer up subjects from history, to the natural world. The big issue is the seventh in the very popular Chiwoo [...]
The New Zealand Mint expands offering in most of its licenced coin franchises, including the debut of Game of Thrones After our catch-up of Mint of Poland releases yesterday, we're doing the same for another popular mint whose output exceeds our ability to keep up with otherwise. Popular culture coins have a huge collector market of [...]
Just a quick heads-up that the tenth in the Czech Mint's nice 'Mythical Creatures' twelve-coin series is now available to buy, and features the Sphinx, most famously known from the millennia old colossal statue that stands guard over the Giza Plateau in Egypt. However, the Greeks also had their own version of the Sphinx, this kind of overlap [...]
Three Graces returns to the Royal Mint with an attractive new range of gold and silver bullion bars One of the biggest hits in the coin world over the last couple of years have undoubtably been the Royal Mint's stunning 'Great Engravers' coins. Releasing classic designs using updated dies from the original Victorian-era originals, they've been [...]
