One of natures most beautiful birds, the swan has appeared on quite a few modern coins, most famously on the Perth Mint's much-loved Australian Swan bullion and proof coin range. However, we've never seen it depicted in such as fashion as MDM Wholesale have done on their latest issue, released as part of their own Autumn Launch. [...]
Monopoly has been a popular theme of late, with even the Royal Mint getting in on the 90th anniversary celebrations, but the prime issuer of coins for the perennially popular board game, MDM Wholesale, are back marking the 10th anniversary of Monopoly Jackpot. This is a variant of the main game based around a spinning wheel that [...]
One of nature's biggest ever cats gets one of numismatics biggest coins. Smilodon debuts on MDM's hybrid metal format Double Silver Giant, a series of big copper/silver hybrid coins, is back with its sixth annual release. The first four coins were buried deep in the prehistoric past, but the 2024 coin jumped forward to the [...]
MDM celebrates 90 years of Monopoly by bringing its impressive multilayer minting to a ten-ounce silver coin It's hard to believe that the ultra-popular board game, Monopoly, has hit its 90th birthday in its current form, itself pre-dated by the inspiration for it, 'The Landlord's Game', created in 1903 by Lizzie Magie. Generations have grown [...]
Silver foils are increasing in popularity again, with Marvel, DC, and mythology leading the new issues A few years ago, there was a huge increase in the popularity of silver foils and silver banknotes, primarily driven by the New Zealand Mint, CIT Coin Invest, and MDM Wholesale. They covered a wide range of themes, from [...]
MDM celebrate 50 years of the rock music of heavy metal icons, Motörhead, with a 3oz high-relief silver coin Formed in 1975 in London by bassist and lead vocalist Lemmy Kilmister, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox, Motörhead went on to reinvigorate heavy metal in the 70s and 80s. Lemmy wrote most of the [...]
MDM celebrates two centuries of public railways with a silver coin filled with inventive ideas German producer, MDM, has debuted their Spring offensive, and the first of them we're looking at is this neat coin celebrating 200 years since the first public steam railway opened. It was on 27 September 1825 that the Stockton and Darlington [...]
Big Monday: MDM Wholesale brings it's multi-layer silver coin technique to Mesoamerican history, with a kilogram look at Inca culture The largest empire in the Americas in the period before the arrival of Columbus, the Incas controlled a huge swathe of the western coast of South America, starting in the early 13th century, ending in 1572, [...]
Along with the Royal Mint's Sovereign bullion coin, the South African Mint's Krugerrand is an absolute icon of the numismatic world, and has been since its introduction way back in 1967. We've covered many of these in the past, but in conjunction with German producer, MDM, the tiny 1/50th oz variant is back on offer. This first [...]
Cast silver weapons coins reach new lengths with MDM's five-ounce silver trident straight from Neptune's hand We've seen some fine cast silver weapons of late, emanating from South Korean producer, Coins Today, and now German producer, MDM Wholesale is joining in with one of their own. There are some significant differences, however, with MDM's offering being [...]
