Last year was a big coin event with the 50th anniversary of the amazing moon landing, undertaken on the Apollo 11 by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. While that was a success, it wasn't all plain sailing for NASA. Just a year later, the Apollo 13 mission to return to the moon almost ended in [...]
Pobjoy and Gibraltar remembers Victory in Europe Day with a fifty pence coin trio After several years of a numismatic commemoration for the centennial events of the First World War, we're now firmly within the realms of the 75th anniversary memorials for the Second. An even bigger swathe of destruction swept around [...]
APMEX has Pobjoy's latest silver bullion coin on exclusive - the British Indian Ocean Territory Turtle The latest small mintage silver bullion coin to hit the market is the first for one of Britain's myriad overseas colonial era islands situated in the sea between Tanzania and Indonesia, the British Indian [...]
400th anniversary of the Mayflower expedition is commemorated on a new limited run Pobjoy bullion coin A big year for the United States with the 400th anniversary of the voyage of The Mayflower. Carrying the Puritans from Plymouth, England to Provincetown, Massachusetts in the New World, this small ship battled for two months to cross [...]
Pobjoy follows 2019's 'Big 5' 2oz silver coin series with 'Big Cats of the World'. An interesting series that emanated from the Pobjoy Mint last year, the African Big Five took a stylised look at the fabled quintet. Struck to a proof finish in two ounces of fine silver, they were [...]
Pobjoy revisit the Penny Black stamp for the postal trailblazers 180th anniversary Along with the Royal Mint, the British Pobjoy Mint are prolific issuers of the United Kingdoms's seven-sided 50 pence coin. There has been a plethora of different designs this year, with Pobjoy's eclectic mix of nature coins, and the Royal Mint seemingly [...]
The bond between the UK and the USA forged by WWII is celebrated on Pobjoy's Uncle Sam & Britannia coin Two national icons - Uncle Sam and Britannia - are pictured together on the Pobjoy Mints coin that celebrates the coming together of these two great powers to fight the rising tide of [...]
Angry Birds, a heatwave and a few days off Just to let you know, we're taking a few days off. With the heat here reaching record highs and not having had a break for what seems like an epoch, we're going to have a recharge. We should be back early [...]
Pobjoy Mint wraps up its stylised African Big Five high relief silver coin series with the Cape Buffalo The African Big Five are a relatively popular choice of subject for nature coins over the last few years. Not common, but not rare. It's easy to see why given these are the beasts [...]
Pobjoys Pegasus silver bullion coin gets a limited edition D-Day proof privy mark edition In a neat twist, Pobjoy are issuing a limited number of Pegasus bullion coins with a paratrooper privy mark and a proof finish, and they will be struck on the 75th anniversary of D-Day - 6th June. [...]
