In shock news, the British Pobjoy Mint is to close after 58 years of producing fine coins for 42 states around the globe In shock news, Pobjoy Mint has announced it is to close after 58 years of producing a huge range of coins for countries located in all corners of the globe. [...]
Uranus is the fifth of six Antarctic glaciers named after planets to be featured on Pobjoy Mint silver coin series We haven't covered enough Pobjoy Mint coins recently, but it's time we caught up a little. The fifth in the mints Antarctic Glaciers series debuted today, featuring a range of glaciers around Alexander Island, all of [...]
Bullion round-up 17: The Caribbean, Australia, Ancient Egypt, and the planet Krypton all feature on new coins Time for our seventeenth bullion coin round-up, and yet again, I completely underestimated the volume of new releases, and the time taken to collate it all. We were hoping to publish this yesterday, but, despite already covering a few [...]
Pobjoy Mint continues to explore Ancient Egyptian history and legend with their third bullion coin for it Following designs commemorating the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, and one for the centenary of the opening of his tomb and sarcophagus, Pobjoy Mint now changes focus by featuring one of the many gods that made up the [...]
Bullion round-up 13: Mint of Gdańsk enters the bullion market. Pobjoy, Germania, and the South African Mint expand choice. The thirteenth bullion coin round-up, and our first of 2023, has a fine selection, a mix of old favourites and new arrivals. The big surprise is the Mint of Gdańsk dipping its toes into the bullion waters [...]
The World of David Walliams from Pobjoy Mint concludes with 'Grandpa's Great Escape', the seventh and final issue Along with Matt Lucas, David Walliams is best known for being one half of the outrageously funny TV comedy, Little Britain. Never afraid to shock, it's rarely seen these days, now we live in times when half the [...]
AgAuSHOOT: 2022 Wild Five – Hippopotamus (Pobjoy Mint) Better late than never, as the old saying goes, here's our next photoshoot of a coin we've been loaned, this time by the fine folks at Pobjoy Mint again. Our last shoot was a Pobjoy coin, from their Queen's Beasts series, and we'd decided to finally get some [...]
AgAuSHOOT: 2021 The Queen's Beasts - The Falcon of the Plantagenets (Pobjoy Mint) We promised late last year that we'd be doing more of our AgAuShoots - photoshoots of coins we've obtained access to, either our own, or coins we've been sent on loan or to keep. We'll note what they are, although we're planning to keep [...]
Minigold coins, those under a gram in weight (usually 0.5 grams) have become increasingly popular over the last five years or so, and will no doubt continue to be so as the price of gold rises. Like the silver bullion market, increased interest brings increased choice, and with the rise in quality brought about by advances in [...]
Pobjoy launches the American Flamingo bullion coin series for the British Virgin Islands in gold and silver Another new bullion coin joins the ever swelling 2021 ranks and it's the British Pobjoy Mint doing the swelling. Over the last few years, Pobjoy has increased its offerings of bullion issued for the various British Overseas Territories in its [...]
