Spectres releases a striking two-ounce, three-dimensional, silver baseball coin Today, the coin producer, Spectres, joins a small group who've released spherical coins. German producer, MDM, has issued several in the past, including planetary ones, and some sports coins, primarily football (the proper one) and cricket, and even hefty, solid, one-kilo offerings. Spectres coin is hollow, which [...]
Odin's legendary spear, Gungnir, is the latest mythological weapon of war to get the silver miniature treatment One of the richest, and most beloved of the ancient mythologies, is that of the Norse peoples. The pantheon of deities is both expansive, and full of fascinating characters, all under the watchful eye of Odin, the leader of [...]
Spectres heads to Ancient Rome, with Julius Caesar, the second in its Masters of War high-relief silver coin series Even by the standards of the ancient world, the name Julius Caesar is an iconic one, perhaps even more so than the legendary Alexander the Great, who Caesar so admired. Before he became the leader of [...]
After a fine debut with its Holy Lance dimensional coin, Spectres moves to the 20th-century United States with Teddy Roosevelt's hunting knife Just four months ago, Spectres surprised us with a fully dimensional coin shaped like the famous 'Holy Lance' held in the Imperial Regalia in Vienna. Purported to be, quite incorrectly, the spear that [...]
Here's our latest look at some of the standout new coin issues from various producers (Week 40 2024) As you know, we always try to cover as many new coins as we can, but the fact remains, the number of new releases every month is way more than we can handle. Moving forward on a [...]
Sixties serial murderer and the inspiration for the villain in Dirty Harry, the Zodiac Killer, is the subject of Spectres latest true crime coin Operating in the San Francisco Bay Area between December 1968 and October 1969, the Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who has never been identified, like the infamous Jack the Ripper. There's [...]
While it was the post-WW2 period that saw an explosion in the popularity of the Jukebox, they can trace their heritage back to 1889, when Louis Glass and William Arnold invented the nickel-in-the-slot phonograph. Progress from there was measured, but in 1946, Wurlitzer launched the 1015, that went on to sell a phenomenal 56,000 units in its [...]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes story gets the numismatic treatment with Spectres new 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band' Very possibly the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes sprang from the imagination of British author Arthur Conan Doyle. First appearing in 1887, he was quite an unusual character for the time, using [...]
The legendary Spear of Destiny comes to numismatics with an extraordinary two-ounce dimensional coin from Spectres One of the most enduring legends from biblical times is that of the Holy Lance, also known as the Spear of Destiny, or the Lance of Longinus. The lance is said to be the spear that an unnamed Roman [...]
Spectres gives us the choice between a punch in the face or soaring high with their latest pair of shaped silver coins Two new issues have launched today from Singaporean producer, Spectres, with wildly different themes, but utilising the same basic format. Both are antique-finished two-ounce silver coins, issued for Cameroon, shaped, high-relief, and with [...]
