Powercoin's innovative Folded Dreams silver coin series jumps to the natural world with a paper frog One of our favourite series from Roman producer Powercoin, is without question their unusual Folded Dreams coins. These reproduce some of the origami-style contraptions kids make from sheets of paper, and so far we've seen a Paper Airplane coin and [...]
Pik Coin's three-issue Peaky Blinders silver coin series concludes with the Shelby family matriarch, Polly Peaky Blinders tells the story of a post First World War criminal enterprise in Birmingham, England. Named after the razor blades embedded in the peaks of their flat caps, the family enterprise tries to dominate the alcohol, betting, and other [...]
Nobody does a set series like the Czech Mint, who have a fine history of issuing themed collections of mainly silver coins. We've covered quite a few of them here, like Prehistoric World, Armoured Vehicles, and Inventions of Leonardo, and the mint has a few in progress right now, at various states of completion. One of them is [...]
Isaac Newton, a genius of the highest order, is celebrated on the second of Numiscollect's Science Explained silver coins Widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist who lived from 1642 to 1727, and is credited with laying the foundations for classical mechanics, optics, [...]
T&S Coin's 'World of Stories' silver coin series showcases the fevered imagination of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland First published back in 1865, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, it tells of [...]
The Royal Mint launches the 2026 coin in its flagship Britannia gold & silver range, and this time with a US designer The iconic, and much loved Britannia proof gold and silver range is back with its 2026 edition, and his time it employs the considerable talents of coin designer, Emily Damstra, who has a huge [...]
Powercoin follows their Pioneer space coin with the fascinating 1977 WOW! Signal Following their interesting take on the plaque included in the Pioneer spacecraft that were destined to hurtle into the void, by Powercoin last year, the Rome-based producer has released another coin in a similar vein, this time based around the famous 1977 'WOW' [...]
Agatha Christie was a master of her craft, and MDM have crafted a masterful puzzle coin to celebrate her works One of the classic literary genres, the murder-mystery, or 'whodunit', traces its origins back to the mid-19th century, with such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It reached a crescendo in the [...]
Asturmint's 'Camelot' series of 2 oz, high-relief coins is up to three issues from the twelve that were originally planned, and the companion 1 oz silver bullion variants have now reached the same level, with the debut of the Sir Perceval coin. The earlier pair, Arthur and Lancelot, also had additional variants, utilising ennoblement with gilding, and [...]
Art Mint's 'Seven Ancient Civilisations' 2oz silver coin collection jumps across the Atlantic to the Mesoamerican Maya culture After wandering through the Middle East and Asia, Art Mint's excellent Seven Ancient Civilisations series jumps over the Atlantic for its one and only visit to the Americas. The Mayan civilisation has its roots around 2,000 BCE, [...]
