Armoured Vehicles 09: The M26 Pershing gold and silver coins (2024 Czech Mint)

By |2024-02-27T11:29:11+00:00February 27th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Military, Gold, Science, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|

It's a favourite subject of mine, so it's fair to say the Czech Mint's three-year, twelve-coin look at the tanks of the Second World War, was always going to get a Coin Series Profile, and that is indeed the case. The coins have been released at the rate of four per year, one each from the Soviet Union, [...]

The 12 Guides of Christmas: Number 2 – Armoured Vehicles by the Czech Mint

By |2023-12-06T15:20:35+00:00December 6th, 2023|Categories: News Nuggets, Site Update, Czech Mint|

The 12 Guides of Christmas: Number 2 - Armoured Vehicles by the Czech Mint Just a heads-up that the second of our '12 Guides of Christmas' is now live, and as promised, it's the Czech Mint's excellent 'Armoured Vehicles' range that we recently got up-to-date with. Not the most festive of subjects, perhaps, (although [...]

The Czech Mint rounds out the second of three sets of four Second World War tank coins with the fearsome Panther

By |2023-11-27T10:50:51+00:00November 27th, 2023|Categories: History, Military, Gold, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|

The Czech Mint rounds out the second of three sets of four Second World War tank coins with the fearsome Panther In 2022, the Czech Mint debuted a new four-coin series featuring one of my favourite thing - tanks. This isn't a popular subject in numismatic circles, with military hardware seemingly less popular than ever, [...]

Bullion round-up 14: Germania, Czechia, & Slovakia issue new coins and there’s the snake of your worst nightmares

By |2023-03-30T21:30:52+01:00February 27th, 2023|Categories: Bullion roundup, Culture, Bullion, Bullion Round, Coloured, Gold, Nature, Silver, Congo, Czech Republic, Czech Mint, Emporium Hamburg, Germania Mint, Slovakia, South Africa, South African Mint|

Bullion round-up 14: Germania, Czechia, Slovakia, & South Africa get fine new issues, and there's the snake of your worst nightmares Our latest bullion coin round-up is actually the first of two parts, as there are just so many of them to look at in a single post. The other part should be up either [...]

The Jungle Book 04 – The Wolf Pack & Akela silver coin (2022 Czech Mint)

By |2022-11-30T20:12:24+00:00November 30th, 2022|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|

The fourth and last of the Czech Mint's 'Jungle Book' coins is now available, and features the Wolf Pack and Akela. This has been, stylistically, a very distinctive series by artist, Asamat Baltaev, and is based on the classic Rudyard Kipling book, with not a sign of Disney nonsense anywhere to be seen. All the coins [...]

The Jungle Book 03 – Shere Khan silver coin (2022 Czech Mint)

By |2022-08-03T10:15:08+01:00August 3rd, 2022|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|

We were pleasantly surprised by the first of the Czech Mint's 'Jungle Book' coins that we covered back in March. It had an interesting and attractive style, undertaken by one of the mint's stalwart artists, Asamat Baltaev, one we have a high regard for here. Based on the classic Rudyard Kipling book, and not the sanitised Disney film, [...]

Our galactic neighbourhood, the Milky Way, shines on new coins from the Czech Mint, and the Austrian Mint

By |2022-07-12T21:43:14+01:00July 12th, 2022|Categories: Coloured, Nature, Austrian Mint, Austria, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|

Our galactic neighbourhood, the Milky Way, shines on new coins from the Czech Mint, and the Austrian Mint There’s no place like home! Our solar system sits within the Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy approximately 150-200,000 light years in diameter. It’s part of the Local Group of galaxies, which form part of the Virgo Supercluster, [...]

Mythical Creatures – The Sphinx (2022 Czech Mint)

By |2022-06-13T22:31:21+01:00June 13th, 2022|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, History, Gold, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|

Just a quick heads-up that the tenth in the Czech Mint's nice 'Mythical Creatures' twelve-coin series is now available to buy, and features the Sphinx, most famously known from the millennia old colossal statue that stands guard over the Giza Plateau in Egypt. However, the Greeks also had their own version of the Sphinx, this kind of overlap [...]

The Czech Mint launches its four-coin look at the potent tanks that fought on both sides during the Second World War

By |2022-05-16T03:16:29+01:00May 16th, 2022|Categories: History, Military, Gold, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|

The Czech Mint launches its four-coin look at the potent tanks that fought on both sides during the Second World War A new series from the prolific Czech Mint features a favourite subject of ours, historical military hardware. Sadly, the 20th century is a veritable goldmine for weapons of destruction, containing an almost endless parade of [...]

The Czech Mint tells the story of Europe’s journey to the New World with its ‘Discovery of America’ coin series

By |2022-04-19T15:34:37+01:00April 19th, 2022|Categories: History, Gold, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|

The Czech Mint tells the story of Europe's journey to the New World with its 'Discovery of America' coin series We've long been fans of the Czech Mints numerous small series of coins themed around everything from nature, to literature, with a fair bit of history thrown in for good measure. Examples, like their Inventions of Leonardo, [...]

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