A testament to the legacy of British musicians, the Royal Mint's 'Music Legends' range adds its eleventh entrant - Iron Maiden We think it's fair to say that Music Legends, the Royal Mints trawl through the epic popular modern music history of Britain, has been a big success. It debuted in 2020 with 'Queen', and it [...]
Prehistoric Life II bullion range roars back to life with the first of three new 2025 designs, starting with the theropod, Carnotaurus Carnotaurus sastrei was a bipedal theropod dinosaur that inhabited what is now Argentina during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 72 to 69 million years ago. Its name, meaning "meat-eating bull," refers to the two [...]
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's childrens favourite 'Zog' is the latest British literary classic to be immortalised on a 50p coin The Royal Mint continues its celebration of the popular culture of British with another delve into the world of children's literature. This subject has been a big part of a long succession of coloured, themed [...]
It's time we caught up with The Royal Mint's latest bullion coin and bar releases, headlined by a very cool Battle of Britain bar While our bullion round-ups have tapered off to a trickle these days (honestly, the work compiling them was too much, especially as they were designed to lighten the load), they are [...]
The 2024 Eastern Caribbean 8 bullion program had a very late start, but Scottsdale Mint has released them at such an accelerated rate that they've already caught up with the issue of these final two designs, one for the volcanic island of Montserrat, and one for the island I spent almost two years on, Anguilla. Montserrat [...]
Scottsdale Mint is powering its way through the 2024 Eastern Caribbean Eight (EC8) bullion/proof coin series, the seventh such annual program since its inception in 2018. The concept is simple. Take the eight island nations that make up the Eastern Caribbean financial block, and each year, issue a new coin design for them. This takes the form [...]
The Royal Mint marks 150 years of iconic London department store, Liberty, with a silver, and gold, coin and medal The Royal Mint has seemingly embraced the more popular culture elements of British life, rather than sticking with the historical, political, and royal genres that have dominated its output over the last few decades. We've had [...]
CIT have added the inevitable 2026 designs to their superb, dimensional Lunar silver coin range, and as always, there's a half-gram minigold, and a five-gram coin note alongside it. We've long been admirers of the innovative designs that have exemplified their Lunar Collection since 2019, and this eighth annual issue is no exception. The star of the [...]
CIT's Spring Launch starts with Leon, the latest addition to Numismatic Icons, celebrating the classic coins of Ancient Greece With CIT's Spring launch upon us, the first thing we do is look for the latest in their Numismatic Icons series, and we're pleased to see that the sixth issue has debuted. If you're unaware of [...]
Classic Manx numismatic legends, the Noble and the Angel, return in expansive ranges of gold and silver from Tower Mint While we often cover coins that are unusual in subject, pushing boundaries technically, or simply quite unique in concept, there will always be a place for the classics, because there's little that encapsulates history as much [...]
