Popeye joins the shaped coin market, along with new Kung Fu Panda, Pennywise, and Ghostbusters releases With this week's release of LPM's new Popeye coin, we thought we'd round-up a few other pop-culture themed, shaped character coins for your perusal. There are quite a few producers getting in on the act these days, and their popularity seems [...]
Bullion round-up 18: A busy May continues with more EC8, prehistoric sea life, and modern nature from around the globe It was only on Friday last that we published a round-up of new bullion issues, but it was clear that the number of new coins was too much for a single compilation, so we did [...]
Bullion round-up 12: Australia, Cambodia, Cameroon, Samoa, and the UK, add new coins in our last collation of 2022 Our twelfth bullion round-up was due to go live late on Friday, but a refresh to the site's theme framework meant our attention was occupied elsewhere. It comes with quite a few tweaks, which we'll try to [...]
Hong-Kong based dealer, LPM Group, has a fine reputation for inventive bullion coins series, and the latest to join their repertoire is 'Asian Mythical Creatures'. The mythology of East and SE Asian cultures has seen quite a surge in popularity over the last few years, so there's a ready market for it, and it doesn't seem to have reached [...]
Blue Marble is the name given to one of the most iconic photographs in history. Taken on the Apollo 17 mission from an altitude of 29,000 km, the picture depicts our home in all its limitless beauty. It remains one of the most reproduced images of all time. Back in February, Hong Kong dealer, LPM, released a coin [...]
Ancient Warriors dimensional coin series returns with a Crusader helmet. another from man's history of warfare The third of LPM's very cool 'Ancient Warriors' coins is here, and after the Samurai and the Spartan, comes the Crusader. Each release in this series showcases famous military headwear, and the producer has done a great job to date, [...]
LPM's second 'Australia's Most Dangerous' series returns in five-ounce bullion, and one-ounce colored proof forms While the third coin in this neat bullion series produced by the Royal Australian Mint, and distributed by LPM, debuted last September, this series has a habit of issuing the one-ounce gold and silver variants first, followed a year or so [...]
Round 2! Fight! Chun-Li is the second iconic Street Fighter character in LPM's videogame-inspired bullion coin series Last November, we were impressed by the first in LPM's new Street Fighter bullion coin series, Ryu. Rather than reproduce the pixel-art of the games, they featured realistic portrayals of the character, and did so with great success. The [...]
The chaos on Earth disappears when you admire it from space. LPM coin, 'Blue Marble', features the iconic 1972 Apollo 17 image Apollo 17 was the final mission in the hugely successful Apollo program, which NASA initiated in 1968 to put a man on the moon. The final mission, Apollo 17, took off on 07 December [...]
Launching today is a platinum version of the 2021 Chinese Dragon coin, the latest in LPM and the Perth Mint's 'Chinese Myths & Legends' series. Launching in 2017, the series is mainly themed around dragons, although there has been a 'Pixiu' coin, and it's fair to say that the overall standard has been very high, especially for [...]
