The beginning of everything? The Big Bang is realised on a new meteorite adorned silver coin It's been a little quieter on the astronomy coin front of late. Fewer series seem to be ongoing and individual releases are not appearing in the numbers they were a few years ago, but what is coming on to the market is maintaining the high quality the genre is known for. [...]
After 15 years of elephants, Somalia adds the leopard to its gold & silver bullion coin selection 2018 SOMALI LEOPARD BULLION COIN A very popular bullion coin, the Somali Elephant is now in its fifteenth year. While it has displayed a pretty good variety of designs over the years, it must get harder and harder to come up with something new, so the producer has decided to [...]
ANA Show limited special Somali Elephant coin is an early look at the design for 2019 2018 ANA SHOW SOMALI ELEPHANT It's ANA show time again and in what is becoming a regular event, Emporium Hamburg are issuing a limited run of Somali Elephant coins with this years date and next years design. It looks a good one, although it's getting harder to tell the various years [...]
The bottle-cap coin is back with the launch of an uber-iconic Coca-Cola design from Fiji Last year, Coin Invest Trust released a highly unusual coin in the shape of a metal bottle-cap. Celebrating the Bavarian Purity Law enacted by Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria on 23rd April 1516, it was shaped like a bottle cap. It sounds a simple thing, but is apparently a difficult thing to [...]
Somali Elephant design for 2018 revealed on limited run coin for the ANA Show in Denver Just like last year, the new Somali Elephant bullion coin design has shown its face by appearing on a limited coin release rather than on the bullion coin proper. This year it's the turn of a small run of 1,000 coins struck for the upcoming ANA show to be held in [...]
Spiderman Homecoming movie immortalised by John Mercanti on new proof coin range The latest blockbuster movie from the Marvel Comics Universe (MCU) is one than fans never thought they would see. The movie rights to Spiderman are not actually owned by them, but like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, are owned by Sony. Fortunately, a deal was thrashed out that let Spiderman join the MCU and [...]
World of Parrots adorned silver coin series debuts its fourth, the Pink & Grey Galah The fourth coin in Downies World of Parrots series launches today and features the attractive Pink & Grey Galah. The first coin launched back in 2014 and there has been a single entrant every year since then. Previous coins have depicted the Crimson Rosella, the Rainbow Lorikeet, and the Scarlet Macaw, all [...]
Sydney Harbour Bridge is 85 and Downies have gold and silver coins to celebrate Eighty-five years old this year, Sydney Harbour Bridge has become an absolute icon of this vibrant Australian city. The scene of one of the most famous New Year celebrations held every year, the bridge is well known far outside of the country, an indelible part of this relatively young states national identity (along [...]
After the Norse Gods, MDM heads to Rome with its new Gladiator series of silver coins Of all the numerous ancient mythology series released over the last three years, none had so rapid a release schedule as Norse Gods by MDM and BH Mayer. Quickly completing a nine-coin run in the space of a year, it was fortunate that these were amongst the cheapest of the choices [...]
North American Predators antiqued silver coin series concludes with the Grizzly Bear. The last of the North American Predators coin series from US mega-dealer APMEX has finally debuted, rounding out an attractive trio, and featuring one of the world's most powerful land carnivores, the Grizzly Bear. The first coin debuted last October and depicted the Grey Wolf, the second back in April having a more unusual subject [...]
