MDM dives into multiple ancient cultures with Norse, Japanese, and Egyptian themes immortalised in silver and gold Continuing our look at the new releases in MDM's Autumn release, and sticking with the unintentional theme of the week - the ancient world - we have three new releases here, all very different in style, and subject. [...]
Emperor Qin Shi Huang's amazing Terracotta Army was discovered fifty years ago, and MDM celebrates in silver We're kicking off our coverage of MDM's new release batch for the 2023 Beijing Coin Expo with, appropriately enough, an icon of China - the famous Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. It was fifty years ago, in [...]
The Robert Pattison headlined The Batman movie gets a three-ounce silver coin bar replete with high relief With a premiere in early 2022, the Matt Reeves helmed, Robert Pattinson starred superhero film, The Batman, launched to excellent reviews, quite something in an industry suffering from superhero fatigue. The film eschewed the usual mass of CGI, and [...]
While the term had been around in British circles since the 1790's, the name 'cocktail' was finally defined in 1806 by The Balance and Columbian Repository of Hudson, New York, who stated it is "A stimulating liquor composed of any kind of sugar, water, and bitters.". Since then, it's developed into a huge cultural phenomenon, with bars [...]
In a world of double-giant dino's. what better than a Double Silver Giant coin? MDM returns with a fourth hybrid prehistoric coin MDM's 'Double Silver Giant' series of prehistoric animal coins returns with a fourth issue, and following superb T.Rex, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus designs, we head to the air with Pteranodon. These are similar in [...]
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 [...]
It's turned into a day of pop-culture Quicklooks, and this time we're at German producer MDM with their Star Trek Starfleet Command silver coin, due to ship this month. Despite a couple of recent cancellations, Star Trek is having a bit of a renaissance at the moment, with 'Strange New World's' garnering very positive reviews, and rightly so, [...]
Spring Launch Special: CIT, MDM and Mint XXI take different approaches to the popular Lunar Dragon coin market The lunar market continues to be a regular fixture on the numismatic calendar, although less important than it seemed a decade ago. We stopped our annual round-ups back in 2019 after limited feedback on their usefulness, but a [...]
Spring Launch Special: MDM debuts some of the quirky issues it's known for, and here are three that caught our eye Spring Launch time continues, and we carry on chipping away at the huge wave of new issues. After a look at three from CIT earlier today, we continue with a look at a second trio [...]
German producer, MDM, brings the beauty of the Hummingbird to coins with an embellished 120 mm silver issue In 2022, MDM released an impressive half-kilo silver coin shaped like a peacock, replete with pastel colours, and embedded crystals, designed to bring to numismatic life one of nature's most beautiful animals. The coin's most striking feature was its [...]
