Okay, this is where thing get really weird. MDM debut their silver coin celebration of a century of Haribo Everyone knows the Haribo Goldbear, and now it joins that other perennial favourite of the confectionary world, PEZ, in having its long-running existence celebrated in silver. It was a hundred years ago that this mix of, sometimes [...]
MDM Week: We round up the week with a look at MDM's latest Harry Potter licenced coins, from mini-gold to maxi-silver We're rounding out our catch-up of MDM issues with a collation of some of their recent Harry Potter releases. It's hard keeping track of just who has Potter rights these days, with the NZ Mint, the [...]
MDM Week: A homage to the world's major bullion coin icons, all merged into a kilo silver cube An unusual piece for todays catch-up of MDM releases, this is one of the producers many dabbles into the geometric dimensional coin genre - those coins that keep a basic geometric shape (cube, bar, pyramid, sphere, etc.), but [...]
MDM Week: The Vikings continue their assault on the coin world with additions to three series Everyone love a good Viking tale. From TV to coins, they've left an indelible cultural stamp on popular culture, and we've found ourselves covering many a fine release over the last few years. MDM are no stranger to the genre, [...]
MDM Week: Triceratops, the triple-horned behemoth, is their second Double SIlver Giant hybrid coin While the whole concept of copper-cored silver coins is largely limited to Precious Metal Collector’s expansive range, there are a couple of similar issues from others. Last year saw MDM launch a terrific Tyrannosaurus Rex coin that also had a silver ‘skin’, [...]
MDM Week: Tutankhamun, the boy pharoah, was discovered a century ago and the coin world marks the anniversary It's incredible to believe that a relatively minor pharoah, one that was sickly and died at under 20 years old, and one that was buried in the smallest pharoah's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, would [...]
MDM and the Solomon Islands release a three silver coin set showcasing our favourite subject - Dinosaurs! You can never have enough dinosaur coins, in my view, so we're always pleased to see something new. This time, it's German producer MDM doing the honours with an all new three-coin set of one ounce fine silver coins. [...]
Underwater World has finished, but MDM takes the concept to the jungle with Tiger, the first 'Colours of Wildlife' Launching in 2018 and running for three years and seven issues, MDM's pretty 'Underwater World' series of three ounce silver coins employed an ultra high relief design, combined with a raised border. This formed a pool that [...]
Thor's legendary weapon of choice, Mjolnir, is reproduced in miniature for MDM's latest dimensional silver coin We could describe how the story of Mjolnir, the famed weapon of choice of the Norse Thunder God Thor, was first told in Skáldskaparmál from Snorri’s Edda. Of how it was forged as the result of a bet between Loki, Sindri, [...]
French military legend Napoleon Bonaparte died 200 years ago and the coin world marks the anniversary Better late than never, as they say, here's our roundup of coins commemorating the bicentenary this week of the death of pint-sized Gallic terror, Napoleon Bonaparte. An icon in France and one of the most famous figures in history, [...]
