With True Crime remaining of huge interest today, especially with the plethora of documentaries and dramas on television, it was of little surprise that Pik Coin's four-issue series of two-ounce silver coins was a sell-out. Indeed, they were popular enough for this producer to start reissuing the originals in a one-kilogram format, which shows a lot [...]
The USA is 250 years old and the coin world celebrates, with Pik Coins adding a clever two-ounce silver design Probably the biggest event in coins this year will be the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States of America from the British Empire. The Declaration of Independence took place on July 4th 1776, [...]
Pik Coin's three-issue Peaky Blinders silver coin series concludes with the Shelby family matriarch, Polly Peaky Blinders tells the story of a post First World War criminal enterprise in Birmingham, England. Named after the razor blades embedded in the peaks of their flat caps, the family enterprise tries to dominate the alcohol, betting, and other [...]
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 [...]
