Scottsdale Mints 'Great Commanders' twelve-coin bullion series nears the halfway mark with the Union General, Ulysses S. Grant We first had a look at this series back in February 2024, after having seen them in hand at the Berlin WMF, and being suitably impressed. Called 'Great Commanders', this is a twelve-coin series of premium bullion coins, released [...]
Here's a July 2025 round-up of some new silver and gold bullion coin releases from around the globe It's been a few months since our last round-up of new bullion coins, so here's a selection of some of the latest. It isn't comprehensive, as I lack the arm count of an octopus, but they do [...]
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 [...]
