The Royal Mint commemorates Queen Elizabeth II, on the epic 70th anniversary of her ascension to the throne It's hard to believe that someone can stay in a position of power for seventy years, even more so when you consider they're still working at an age most of us will never see, but Queen Elizabeth II [...]
The Royal Mint issues a custom, Platinum Jubilee, 15kg gold coin, the biggest in its history If there was anything the old adage 'If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it' applies to more than a 15 kg gold coin from the Royal Mint, we'd love to see it. As part of the [...]
The Royal Mint celebrates the 40th birthday of the Duke of Cambridge with a new coin range in gold and silver Born on 21 June 1982, just a week after British forces had successfully concluded the Falklands War, and thus at the height of a patriotic fervour in the UK, William Arthur Philip Louis was the [...]
The fourth of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World bullion rounds from APMEX has just debuted, and this time around depicts the Temple of Artemis, and one of its most famous figures by association, Alexander the Great. The temple was actually the third built on the site, with the second having been burned to the ground in [...]
The Czech Mint launches its four-coin look at the potent tanks that fought on both sides during the Second World War A new series from the prolific Czech Mint features a favourite subject of ours, historical military hardware. Sadly, the 20th century is a veritable goldmine for weapons of destruction, containing an almost endless parade of [...]
We're going to be honest straight from the start, nobody does minigold coins as well as Liechtenstein-based producer, CIT. While many other mints have embraced the half-gram gold coin format, none have issued so many designs, across so wide a range of subjects, or have so comprehensively integrated them into their wider range. The great majority of CIT's [...]
Another wide-ranging selection of themes and designs for our late April/early May round-up of new bullion coins A little later than usual, partly because I dread collating from all over to put these together, is our April round-up of many of the new bullion coin releases that launch into a market that continues to be as [...]
Part of yesterday's Spring Launch at CIT, their annual Lunar Calendar range continued with the debut of a trio of new issues, as varied in format as last year. Headlining the 'Sweet Rabbit' range is a super little fully dimensional silver coin, of an ounce in weight. These have always had a quite unique style of their own, [...]
Spring is in the air, and CIT launch their latest seasonal range, including quite exceptional nods to the past and the future Never one to disappoint, genuinely, Liechtenstein-based producer, CIT, have a reputation second to none for its combination of envelope-pushing design, and sheer quality. Choosing to release most of their coins in quarterly batches [...]
The Royal Mint introduces its City Views proof coin series with a 1640s view of London and the River Thames The Royal Mint has long tapped into London's history and culture for numismatic inspiration, and their latest series goes back to 1647 for it. Wenceslaus Hollar, a Bohemian graphic artist, spent much of his life in England, [...]
