Pik Coins returns to the awesome world of Peaky Blinders with the unbalanced Arthur as the latest in the Shelby clan to feature

By |2025-02-28T10:18:09+00:00February 27th, 2025|Categories: Movies & TV, Gilded, Silver, Niue Island, PiK Coins|

Pik Coins returns to the awesome world of Peaky Blinders with the unbalanced Arthur as the latest in the Shelby clan to feature One of the best TV shows of all time, in my humble opinion, Peaky Blinders tells the story of a post First World War criminal enterprise in Birmingham, England. Named after the razor [...]

The Carpathian Mint adds Barbarians to its Woman Warriors series of 2 oz silver coins, the fifth to date.

By |2025-02-27T14:07:46+00:00February 27th, 2025|Categories: History, Inserts, Silver, Carpathian Mint, Niue Island|

The Carpathian Mint adds Barbarians to its Woman Warriors series of 2 oz silver coins, the fifth to date. Despite the backlash to Hollywood's ridiculous creation of female heroes beating up men three times their size, over recent years, the fact remains that woman have made formidable warriors throughout historical lore, and even in reality. [...]

Powercoin debuts ‘Other Life’, a coin following the tranformation of a digital wireframe tiger, to its powerful reality

By |2025-02-25T17:52:35+00:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: Nature, Coloured, Science, Silver, Cook Islands, Powercoin|

Powercoin debuts 'Other Life', a coin following the tranformation of a digital wireframe tiger, to its powerful reality With science pushing further and further into the natural world, and the merging of the two coming closer and closer to reality, it's of little surprise that imagery linking the two is becoming more commonplace. It isn't [...]

The Legendary Monkey King gets kitted out with Mint of MK’s extraordinary, and quite huge, gilded cudgel and headband coins

By |2025-02-24T13:56:59+00:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, Gilded, Cameroon, Mint of MK|

The Legendary Monkey King gets kitted out with Mint of MK's extraordinary, and quite huge, gilded cudgel and headband coins Sun Wukong, the legendary Monkey King, is one of the main characters in the famous 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, although his origin can be traced back centuries earlier to the Song Dynasty (10th-13th [...]

Fairy Bread 1/2oz silver coin (2025 Melbourne Coin Company)

By |2025-02-24T08:42:24+00:00February 24th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Culture, Coloured, Silver, Melbourne Coin Co., Niue Island|

It isn't just the wildlife Down Under that's brightly coloured and capable of finishing you off, it seems the food is as well! Fairy bread is a favourite for kids, and no doubt adults, in Australia and New Zealand, and is basically a buttered slice of bread covered in hundreds and thousands (sprinkles). Easy to make, easy to [...]

The Lithuanian Mint goes from 1850’s California, to the Roaring 1920’s of New York with two new Liberian high-relief silver coins

By |2025-02-21T14:41:39+00:00February 21st, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Inserts, Silver, Liberia, Lithuanian Mint|

The Lithuanian Mint goes from 1850's California, to the Roaring 1920's of New York with two new Liberian high-relief silver coins We've long been partial to the Lithuanian Mint, especially for their eclectic designs, often emanating from the creative minds of local artists, like the superb 'World of Cryptids' series, and the pretty 'Elements' series. [...]

Deadly & Dangerous: Australia’s Tiger Snake proof coins (2025 Downies/Perth Mint)

By |2025-02-19T20:45:00+00:00February 19th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Nature, Gold, Silver, Downies, Tuvalu|

Still powering on after two decades, Downies Collectables 'Deadly & Dangerous' series of coloured proof coins continues with a 20th annual release. It says something about the general malevolence of Australian wildlife that a series depicting it can still be going strong for so long, but there are still plenty of unsung villains still not covered. The [...]

Year of the Dragon 1oz gold bullion coin (2024 Royal Australian Mint)

By |2025-02-19T13:41:34+00:00February 19th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Culture, Bullion, Australia, Nature, Gold, Royal Australian Mint|

The Royal Australian Mint has been issuing some fine bullion coins of late, and their Lunar Calendar range is one of the more popular. We've covered most of them to date, and you can see the whole range, along with most of the RAM's recent output, in our comprehensive Bullion Profile summary of them all.However, there's been a [...]

Beowulf & the Dragon gold & silver bullion coins (2025 Royal Mint)

By |2025-02-19T12:53:21+00:00February 19th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Bullion, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Today, we're going to be using our Quicklooks to catch up on some of the new bullion releases, and the first of them is the ninth issue in The Royal Mint's 'Myths & Legends' range. This purportedly 12-coin series is divided into four groups of three coins, (although it's possible it may stop at this ninth issue, after [...]

Tudor Beasts adds its eighth of ten designs with the arrival of the Greyhound of Richmond in gold and silver proof form

By |2025-02-18T16:14:35+00:00February 18th, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Tudor Beasts adds its eighth of ten designs with the arrival of the Greyhound of Richmond in gold and silver proof form Tudor Beasts returns today with the eighth of ten designs in this classic heraldic series of coins from the Royal Mint. Designed by David Lawrence, they're based on statues (King’s Beasts) that adorn the Moat [...]

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