Hollywood's anamorphic lens concept comes to numismatics with a striking new 10th anniversary ten ounce silver coin from Le Grand Mint Our story starts, weirdly enough, on the Western Front during the First World War, when French inventor, Henri Jacques Chrétien, developed an optical system called Hypergonar, to allow tank crews to have a wider view [...]
The Royal Mint reissues the UK/US Special Relationship 'The British Lion & American Eagle' bullion coin range in gold and silver for 2025 Last year, the Royal Mint employed the talents of iconic ex-US Mint coin artist, John Mercanti, to design a new coin range celebrating the historic relationship between the United States of America, and [...]
Pop Coins sets off on a trip around the world's most fascinating sites with a new limited series, and the chance of an upgrade Pop Coins have added a new themed series to their range of ultra-low mintage, one-ounce coloured silver coins, following several series sporting some pretty cool AI art. Like those, this new [...]
One of the most attractive of Scottsdale Mint's many bullion series, the Samoan Seahorse is, as you no doubt guessed, a seahorse-themed annual release, issued for Samoa. It's only available as a one-ounce 0.999 silver coin, but since 2019 (the series debuted in 2018), there's been a choice of two finishes - the standard bullion (Scottsdale call [...]
We like a good Czech Mint series for a number of reasons. There are a pre-set number of coins in each one, usually issued over three years, they're relatively affordable, well-designed, and there's often a collector's binder/tin to keep it all in. We've covered several of them in our Coin Series Profiles, such as Prehistoric World, Armoured [...]
The Town-class cruiser, and famous museum ship, HMS Belfast, is showcased on the Royal Mint's latest gold and silver coin Displacing 11,550 tons, and reaching 166.99 metres in length, the Town-class light cruiser, HMS Belfast, has become an icon of the modern London experience, sitting anchored close to Tower Bridge, and the Tower of London, as [...]
Major League Baseball returns to coins with a big range from Agoro, covering top teams and tournaments Agoro, the name for the collectible coin part of the New Zealand Mint, recently added Major League Baseball to their portfolio, and they've decided that December is going to be a huge month for new issues. Below, you'll [...]
A stunning Griffin miniature is the second Mythical Creature in Coins Today's silver series The second of Coins Today's mythical beast themed series has released just before year's end, and following on from an impressive dragon debut, we stay close to that with another ancient legend, the Griffin. Dating back to Greek & Persian times, it [...]
The Air Elemental, the Sylph, adorns the third of four coins in Art Mint's beautiful two-ounce silver coin series Art Mint continues its four-coin journey through the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, with Sylph, the Air Elemental. We've covered the first two issues, Earth/Gnome, and Water/Undine, in previous articles, and Air/Sylph follows [...]
Agoro continues to broaden its range of film and television coins and expand its most popular ranges. Here's some of the new issues. Kings of the pop-culture franchise coin, Agoro, the name for the collectible coin part of the New Zealand Mint, continue to increase their portfolio of issues across multiple licences, and even add new [...]
