Pik Coins wraps up its four-coin true-crime series 'The Gangsters' with one of the most iconic mob bosses - Lucky Luciano True crime is a hugely popular subject to this day, the inspiration for countless television shows, and Hollywood films, and in its own right. Documentary series on channels like Netflix, regularly top the charts, [...]
Pik Coins returns to the awesome world of Peaky Blinders with the unbalanced Arthur as the latest in the Shelby clan to feature One of the best TV shows of all time, in my humble opinion, Peaky Blinders tells the story of a post First World War criminal enterprise in Birmingham, England. Named after the razor [...]
A ginger in the Big Apple rounds out Pik Coin's pretty 'Cats in the City' trilogy of 100-gram cast silver bars Back in July, we covered the first of PiK Coin's new three-piece series of 100 gram cast bars, called 'Cats in the City'. That one depicted a coloured image of a British Shorthair cat [...]
Louis Braille's amazing system of tactile writing helping the blind to read is celebrated on a UV-enhanced silver coin In 1809, at the age of just three years old, in a town just 35 km east of the Eiffel Tower, Louis Braille blinded himself in one eye in an accident involving a stitching awl. It [...]
The coloured cast bar tsunami continues with the completion of 7 Deadly Sins, an owl, a bull, Chicago, and a surprise London feline There seems to be quite a bit of interest in the coloured cast-bar market at the moment, kicked off by Germania Mint's program, one we also published a Bullion Profile for, so here [...]
PiK Coins takes a gamble on its new three-ounce Roulette silver coin proving a big hit Meaning 'little wheel' in French, Roulette originated in 18th-century France, and was derived from an earlier Italian game called Biribi. The roulette wheel is segmented with numbered catchments, and a ball is introduced while the wheel is spinning. It eventually [...]
Pik Coins returns to the true crime genre with one of the world's most notorious criminals - Pablo Escobar True crime is a huge genre in popular culture, with a wide swathe of interest in film, television, magazines, books and novels, amongst other things. Pik Coins have embraced the subject, releasing a succession of silver issues [...]
It was a decade ago that the hit television series Peaky Blinders had its debut, and PiK Coins celebrates in silver A wonderful television series, Peaky Blinders told the story of a criminal gang fighting for control of the streets of early 20th century Birmingham. Headlined by a brilliant Cillian Murphy, and with an outstanding [...]
PiK Coin's look at the infamous 20th century gangsters continues with the bank robber, John Dillinger The world of the popularly known gangsters, that became synonymous with American culture in the inter-war period of the mid-20th century, is rarely seen on coins, but in 2021, PiK Coins debuted the first of its new series, simply called 'Gangsters',. [...]
PiK Coins returns to the world of classic gangsters with the legendary outlaw lovers, Bonnie & Clyde We all know about the coin market's near-obsession with the ancient world as a theme for new releases, but we're constantly surprised, and not a little dismayed, at just how much of history is relatively neglected in comparison. There's [...]
