The landmark sounds from history feature on Sounds of Legacy, a silver coin with an audio link to Armstrong's moon landing speech "One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." With these words, astronaut Neil Armstrong opened up the next phase in human exploration by stepping from the Apollo 11 lunar lander onto [...]
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, [...]
Precious Metal Collectors celebrates the open road, a culinary classic, and the works of the great painters, with four new coins Singaporean producer, Precious Metal Collectors, have always impressed us with their signature Bi/Tri-Metal minted fine art coins, of which there are now over fifty examples. Clearly, the concept is a popular one, and having had [...]
Live Long and Prosper. The iconic Vulcan salute from Star Trek heads up the latest selection of releases from Agoro We haven't caught up with Agoro, the collectible department of the New Zealand Mint, for a while, but we've noticed they seem to be getting a bit more adventurous of late, and we love that here. [...]
Mint XXI brings Three Graces from its Celestial Beauty series to more affordable levels with new proof and bullion coin variants In an unexpected step, one of the finest producers of numismatics working today, Mint XXI, has dipped a first toe into the burgeoning silver bullion market. As some others have done, like Asturmint for example, [...]
Coins & More debut their second 'Figures of Death' coin, with a stunning depiction of the Aztec lady of death, Mictēcacihuātl To say that the concept of death has been an outsize influence on many civilisations throughout history would be something of an understatement. From the earliest cultures of Mesopotamia, and across all inhabited continents, whole societies [...]
Powercoin's quirky Techstalgic silver coin series continues with the ultra-iconic music cassette player, the Walkman Powercoin, known for its range of quirky coins, has dipped once again into our technological dark age for the fourth in its unique 'Techstalgic' series. This range brings, to modern numismatics, some of the earliest steps in mass-produced consumer electronics that [...]
Despite a relatively subdued release schedule compared to the early day, Disney bullion coins are still being released, and the latest, by MTB-PAMP, signifies a new confidence in the brand. We see this in the mintages, with have risen from around 10,000, to 25,000 here. Also telling is the return of gold, absent in most new issues [...]
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 [...]
