Emporium Hamburg's second series of Prehistoric Life bullion coins continues with one of the oceans greatest ever predators - Megalodon The subject of Prehistoric Life, and this second series, is reason enough for it to be one of my favourite bullion coin ranges, but it's pleasing to see that Emporium Hamburg have done such a terrific [...]
The Royal Mint joins MDM in marking the 90th anniversary of seminal board game, Monopoly, with gold and silver coins Monopoly, either a fun game of economics, or a mean-spirited take on capitalism, has hit its 90th birthday in its current form, itself pre-dated by the inspiration for it, ‘The Landlord’s Game’, created in 1903 [...]
The Royal Mint debuts its five-issue 'Portraits of a Queen' coin series, and celebrates the incredible voyage of the RRS Discovery The Royal Mint has a busy month in September, with some new series, one-offs, and continuations of existing, ongoing ranges. We're taking a look at the two latest issues, the former of which, RRS Discovery, [...]
The big lunars continue to appear, and with the Perth Mint, Royal Mint, and Numistrade launching their new Year of the Horse coins this week, it seems fitting that the Royal Australian Mint would join them. The horse is the sixth in the mints Lunar Investment Series, one of the prettiest ranges in this genre. The horse [...]
The lunar flood continues with the Royal Mint debut of its latest Shēngxiào issue for the Year of the Horse Next up on the major lunar coin front is The Royal Mint, with today's launch of their latest Shēngxiào coin, obviously for the Year of the Horse. We've already had the Perth Mint, and Numistrade [...]
Numistrade add HMS Victory to their Nautical Ounce and the horse to the Lunar Ounce bullion and proof coin ranges We're continuing this week's catch-up of bullion coins, and lunars with another combo of the two, this time from German producer, Numistrade. They've recently debuted the tenth in their Lunar Ounce series, and we've also got [...]
The Perth Mint debuts one of the bullion calendar highlights, the seventh Lunar Series III design, the Year of the Horse. One of the absolute legends of the modern numismatic world, the Perth Mint's Lunar Series has been going since 1996, when Lunar Series I, specifically the Year of the Mouse, debuted. It wasn't until 2000, [...]
CIT and the Cook Islands, bring us coins for Yellowstone, the Italian peninsula, Machu Picchu, and the Cook Islands Here's our second look at CIT's Summer Launch of new coins, released to coincide with the ANA World's Fair of Money, which has just wrapped up. We had a look at four quite unique designs on [...]
The Royal Mint marks 200 years of the modern railway, with a new £2 coin homage in silver and gold On 27 September 1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, situated in northeast England, began operations. The engineering was overseen by the George Stephenson, and his legendary son, Robert, and amongst the many innovations associated with [...]
The Princess Royal is 75 years old, and The Royal Mint celebrates in gold and silver with a new coin Well regarded for her impressive work ethic and lack of scandal, Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, has long been a steady hand in royal circles. The only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, she was born in [...]
