Manfra, Tordella & Brookes, a part of the Swiss MKS-PAMP group, have just added a new pack to their unique PEZ silver bullion bar series. With the original candy bars and their themed plastic dispensers generating a big worldwide collector market, coming in literally hundreds of different designs since they first appeared in 1949, it was a [...]
With True Crime remaining of huge interest today, especially with the plethora of documentaries and dramas on television, it was of little surprise that Pik Coin's four-issue series of two-ounce silver coins was a sell-out. Indeed, they were popular enough for this producer to start reissuing the originals in a one-kilogram format, which shows a lot [...]
Pop Coins, a producer linked to Dutch producer, and site favourite, Numiscollect, have just issued the final six coins in their Zodiac Aquarelle series, and the final six in the Zodiac Goddesses series. Both are a series of twelve one-ounce silver coins released earlier this year, and both, as the name suggests, are thematic takes on [...]
Launched in April 2025, Folded Dreams is one of the most original coin series of recent years, taking the ancient paper folding art of Origami, and turning it into a series of dimensional coins. The first design was shaped just like a classic paper airplane, and that was followed by a paper boat, and then a [...]
Last Friday saw the 25th anniversary of the Al Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York. The mainland United States hadn't experienced this level of casualties in a single event, almost 3,000 people, since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and the fact it was a terrorist attack shook the [...]
Formally created by Cardinal Richelieu in 1626, the Marine Nationale (French Navy) has spent the last 400 years defending the interests of France, sometimes successfully, as it did during the American War of Independence, and sometimes not so well, as shortly after during the Napoleonic Wars with the Royal Navy. The Second World War did not give [...]
Scottsdale Mint's expansive coloured bullion bar range continues to grow, and the latest is the third annual Monster Collection, released for the Halloween period. We consider this the best of the bars, noted for their consistently high quality artwork, and the 2026 selection of six bars is no exception to that. Each of the bars tips the [...]
We don't normally cover simple minted bars here, preferrring to concentrate on releases that carry some artistry, but this new one from Mint of MK seems a bit of fun, that might make a good gift for the new or younger collector in particular. The bar is neat enough, weighing just three grams, with the American Metal Stackers [...]
After a fine debut last March, Le Grand Mint have launched the second of their Fors Fortuna bars with a new design by the same talented Italian artist, Carmen Testa. It features the Roman goddess of fortune, and the personification of luck, a popular deity in the civilisation centred around the modern Italian capital over 2,000 years ago. [...]
An Italian poet (1265-1321), Dante is widely lauded for his three part ‘Divine Comedy’ which is not only considered the greatest literary work in the Italian language, but also one of the most important of the Middle Ages. He eschewed the traditional use of Latin so that more people would have access to his writing, helping [...]