It finally happened! Scottsdale Mint concludes its epic ten-year, sixty coin journey through Gustave Dore's biblical woodcuts The day has finally arrived! Scottsdale Mint has issued the final two coins in what has been an epic range of coins. Launched in 2015, Biblical Series was touted as a sixty-coin, decade long program, and I must admit, [...]
Just a quick heads up that we've updated our comprehensive Bullion Profile of Scottsdale Mint's coloured minted bullion bars to include the new range of eleven bars themed around the upcoming Valentine's Day. There's around 60 different designs in the range to date, and we expect many more as the year progresses. These are cheap and simple [...]
One of the most attractive of Scottsdale Mint's many bullion series, the Samoan Seahorse is, as you no doubt guessed, a seahorse-themed annual release, issued for Samoa. It's only available as a one-ounce 0.999 silver coin, but since 2019 (the series debuted in 2018), there's been a choice of two finishes - the standard bullion (Scottsdale call [...]
Here's a collation of some of the new bullion coin releases from around the world (Week 42, 2024) We've been having some success with our weekly round-up of new coin releases on Fridays, and we used to do similar things last year with bullion coins, so I've decided to continue with similar weekly bullion collections on [...]
A heads-up that we've just added Scottsdale Mint's new 2024 Christmas bars to our full Bullion Profile of their expansive coloured silver minted bars range. These will sit alongside the recent Halloween range, and the USA Patriotic bars, bringing the total selection up to 51 designs.This latest batch is an eclectic mix of Christmas themed designs, and there [...]
Scottsdale Mint has added the 2024 issue to its long-running Barbados Trident bullion coin, the eighth to date, and as expected, it's fundamentally the same design. The trident is the symbol that adorns the national flag of Barbados, representing the three base tenets of democracy: government of the people, government for the people, and government by the [...]
The 60-coin, 10-year Biblical Series program of two-ounce silver coins, continues its inevitable march to completion with the debut of the first pair of 2024 issues. Scottsdale Mint is maybe on track to finish this hugely ambitious series before the year is up. This new pair represent the 55th and 56th releases to date, so there [...]
Finally, the last pair of designs in Scottsdale Mint's eight-coin Eastern Caribbean 8 programme for 2023, the sixth annual run through this popular tourist location, has been issued, and there's one for Antigua & Barbuda, and one for Grenada. The Antiguan coin is the fourth Rum Runner design, looking at the island's long history with the rum [...]
Along with the Montserrat coin came the issue for Anguilla. Regular readers will know of my affinity for this island, having lived and worked there in 2005/6, so it's great to see a coin capture the place so well. The boat races around the island (it isn't a big place) were a highlight of the annual calendar, [...]
We recently covered the second pair of coins in Scottsdale Mint's eight-coin Eastern Caribbean 8 programme for 2023, the sixth annual run through this beautiful region of the world. This is the fifth of them, and is for the island of Montserrat, famous for an active volcano that sometimes like to try and kill everyone, the last [...]
