Another year is almost over and it's time to relax, and reflect on what's gone before and what's to come. I'd like to wish all our readers the very best of holidays wherever you are and hope that 2016 brings good times for you all. Thank you all for visiting, without you there would be no point [...]
Noted for some fine coin releases every year, especially the Macau Lunars, the Singapore Mint has for over a decade been producing coins based on the copious varieties of Orchids that are native to this young country. After a five-year series of coins called The Grandeur of Heritage Orchids Series, which comprised 10 coins and was [...]
It seems that Odin is going to be the star of coins for a while to come as Gainesville throw their hat into the ring with the first of a four-coin series of Norse gods. Like it's contemporaries, it sticks firmly with the high-relief, antique silver format, but brings enough twists of its own to make [...]
Canada week continues with a couple of personal favourites. Like the British Royal Mint, the Royal Canadian Mint does history coins very well and coins like these are often overlooked in the clamour for information on the flashy or high-profile licensed designs. These two in particular are superb examples of the genre and while celebrating events from two seperate [...]
For the last couple of years, the Royal Mint has struck a special version of its perennial silver bullion coin, the Britannia. Produced for American bullion dealer A-Mark Precious Metals, the coin has struck into its edge a privy mark symbolising the lunar year of issue. This time out it contains the horns of a ram as we're currently [...]
The New Zealand Mint has launched its new website and it's a huge improvement on the clunky one of old. It's now much easier to navigate and buy, especially since they've also moved to accept PayPal. That's all well and good, but new websites are popping up everywhere at the moment and while usually something to appreciate, not anything [...]
In a couple of weeks time on 7 May, we celebrate 70 years since the end of the European theatre of the most destructive war in human history, World War II. After seven long years of brutal conflict, German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of all German forces. By the time the war was over, at least [...]
Released at last years Berlin World Money Fair, the Mint of Poland showed an extremely unusual coin celebrating the Canonisation of Pope John Paul II. Described by the mint as being 'Cuboid' the coin was essentially a flat piece of silver that had been bent into an almost exploded open cube shape. Along with the smaller 3oz version of [...]
For the first time in seventeen years this week, the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II has been updated on the back of British currency with the announcement of a new portrait by Jody Clark, designer of the 2014 proof Britannia. In the same week, the Royal Canadian Mint has released four new coins, three of which kick off new [...]
September 09 2015 is a key date in British History. On this day, Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest serving monarch of this island nation, surpassing the record set by Queen Victoria, who reigned from 20 June 1837 to 22 January 1901, a total of 63 years, 216 days. In celebration of this landmark, the Royal Mint is changing the Queens [...]
