Does it have a gun? You'll wish it did because that would probably be less painful than getting stung by Paraponera clavata, more commonly known as the Bullet Ant. Native to the lowland rainforests of Central and South America, it has a fearsome reputation amongst local peoples, and many other names, including hormiga veinticuatro in Venezuela, [...]
Since its 2021 debut, the Lithuanian Mint has regularly added new issues to its 'Fairy Tales' range of one-ounce silver coins, usually two or three of them. This talented producer has just issued the 15th in the series to date, and they're stepping it up in the design stakes with a neat new border frame.Thumbelina is the fairy [...]
Legendary Warriors, a 15-coin series of two-ounce silver coins by T&S Coin, in partnership with North Carolina based US dealer, Pinehurst Coins, has received its penultimate issue with the release of Arminius. These coins feature famous historical warriors from around the world, in antiqued high-relief with gilded highlights. The series has a decent mix of subjects, and a [...]
The tsunami of releases from Mint of MK and Silver Pours in the realm of micro-coins continues, and so does our quest to keep track of them for the collectors among you. For the unaware, these are tiny coins, way smaller than the 0.5 gram minigold and usually a light as 1/1000oz. You can buy coins in [...]
It's been some three years since Numiscollect added to their History of the Crusades series of silver coins, but we've finally got a new issue, the fourteenth since it debuted in 2009. Each coin has depicted a scene from a specific crusade, the first ten focusing on what we consider the traditional campaigns, and the last four, [...]
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, widely regarded as the greatest writer in his native Spanish, wrote his hit novel in 1605. Called ‘The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha’, it tells the story of the title character and his many adventures with his horse Rocinante, and his squire, Sancho Panza, most of which are distortions of fantasies [...]
T & S Coin have issued a new coin in their expanding range of two-ounce, high-relief silver coins, and we're heading to that perennial favourite for the subject - Greek mythology. With one of the most varied and unusual pantheons in the ancient world, there are plenty of subjects to choose from, and the choice of the [...]
Le Grand Mint are one of those producers who have a certain style to their coins, and it's a very elegant one. Coins like the Durga range, and the Queen of Creativity issue, have a style all of their own, with the recent Freya being a particular favourite of mine. The quality of the artists that create the [...]
In June 2024, Powercoin added the Databank Watch, an homage to all those Casio and Seiko calculator watches that blew people's minds back in the 70s, to their fledgling 'Techstalgic series'. It was the second issue, following the Floppy Disk coin, and was subsequently followed by an Unbreakable Phone, and a Walkman. Those other three coins had [...]
New issues have been added to the micro-coin profiles, specifically the ones for gold, platinum, and palladium. As always, we'll keep these up-to-date as they do come out at quite a fast rate.We've added five new designs to the gold guide, one to the platinum, and one to the palladium. DENOMINATION COMPOSITION DIMENSIONS FINISH MINTAGE [...]