Royal Australian Mint expands its nature themed bullion selection with a pair of Sumatran Tigers A surprising player in the burgeoning gold and silver bullion coin markets, the Royal Australian Mint has always been a dabbler in investment coins, but never a major player. While they're still a long way from giving the Canadians [...]
Smartminting is dead! Long live Smartminting Reloaded! CIT's groundbreaking tech gets an upgrade. It was only four short years ago that the Liechtenstein-based masters of coin design, CIT Coin Invest, partnered up with B.H.Mayer, the German mint world renowned for its expertise, to produce a new minting technology called Smartminting. The premise [...]
Classic time travel adventure, Back To The Future is 35 years old and Niue marks the time and date in silver Released in 1985, the Robert Zemeckis directed time-travel comedy 'Back to the Future', was a huge critical and commercial success, spawning two sequels. The combination of a top-notch script, first-class direction [...]
'Get off your horse and drink your milkspots!' John Wayne hits the limited silver bullion coin market Born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26, 1907, John Wayne is one of the most beloved actors in American movie history. From his first major role in the 1930 Western, The Big Trail, until his death from [...]
Jim Lee's brilliant Batman story, 'Hush' inspires Niue's latest DC comic series silver coins When you take one of the most iconic superhero characters of all time and give him to one of the best comic artists of the modern age, you get a story like Batman: Hush. Originally published over 12 issues of [...]
Following Ares, Poseidon, & Hephaestus coins, Numiartis showcases the protector against epidemics, Apollo It's arguably the superb Ares coin back in 2017 that first drew attention to the Mint of Poland's abilities in this genre, but it's fair to say they've proved time and again it wasn't a one off. Ares was the first [...]
Disney bullion back for the second time in 2020 with Mickey and Pluto in silver and gold The New Zealand Mint's ongoing run of Disney-themed bullion coins continues with a second release in 2020 already. Obviously these things are pretty popular, even though the mintage is far smaller than the original issues. [...]
Guards of the Empire shows off the ubiquity of the Clone Trooper army for its second issue To say there are a few Star Wars coins on release over the last few years would be an understatement, so we don't doubt that the New Zealand Mint is finding it more difficult to come up [...]
For the fifth and final time, the Royal Mint brings Peter Rabbit to its 50p coin range One of the first Royal Mint licenced fifty pence coins to generate a buying frenzy, the debut Peter Rabbit coin, released in 2016, sold out its 15,000 mintage in barely a week. Three other character coins [...]
Big Brother is watching and the Austrian Mint's 18th silver niobium coin is in on it... The annual trip to Niobiumland by the Austrian Mint is here again and for 2020 it's a timely look at the world of surveillance, with 'Big Data'. As with all of the coins in this series, it's a [...]
