One of the longest running series we've ever covered at AgAuNEWS, Deadly and Dangerous debuted in 2006 with the Red Back Spider, a coin that went on to garner enormous interest on the secondary market. It was a striking coin, but despite interest in the series reducing somewhat, no doubt due to the huge influx of competing designs, [...]
Our updating of various Coin Series Profiles continues today, with another pair of coins added to the New Zealand Mint's copious, and quirky range of pop-culture parodies. For those unaware, Chibi is based on the Japanese art-style called super-deformed, whereby a character is depicted with a huge, outsized head. There are now over 150 coins in this [...]
A long-running series from the National Bank of Poland, 'Enduring Soldiers Accursed by the Communists' is a celebration of the freedom fighters that gave their lives fighting the Soviet Union immediately after the end of the Second World War. Today sees the issue of the 17th coin in the series - Zygmunt Szendzielarz 'Lupaszka'. Each half-ounce sterling [...]
It's a favourite subject of mine, so it's fair to say the Czech Mint's three-year, twelve-coin look at the tanks of the Second World War, was always going to get a Coin Series Profile, and that is indeed the case. The coins have been released at the rate of four per year, one each from the Soviet Union, [...]
Closing in on 30 releases to date, Precious Metal Collector's range of fine-art coins using their innovative multi-metal process, remains as popular as ever. For 2024, the producer moved to a Tri-Metal Max process, with a layer of 2.5oz of fine silver sitting over a central core of 750g of zinc, which sits atop a layer of 120g [...]
The latest in Coins Today's comprehensive bullion range is this new, undenominated bar in the shape of an arrowhead. Decorated in what appears to be a medieval, Northern European style across both faces, it's available with a choice of two finishes. The first is fully antiqued, and the second is similarly finished, but embellished with some gold [...]
The Royal Mint's 'British Myths & Legends' series has been issued in waves of three designs, each trio featuring a particular tale from British history. The first trilogy was Robin Hood, and the second, King Arthur's Camelot. Now it's time for the latest story, and we're drawn back to Anglo-Saxon times for the epic tale, Beowulf. "Beowulf," [...]
The Royal Canadian Mint continues its long tradition of nature-themed bullion with the second in their Ice Age Giants series of two-ounce silver coins. Launching last year with a Smilodon design, for 2024 we're with another classic beast of the period, the Woolly Mammoth. It's a typical RCM design, with a wide, star-burst border, and some excellent [...]
Another work from the artist Laimutė Varkalaitė, responsible for the superb World of Cryptids range, Pastel Circus is just as quirky, perhaps even more so. This is a four-coin series, following different incarnations of the red-nosed clown, all of them hinting at a symbolic transformation into a bird. Like we said, quirky... This third issue is called [...]
We don't normally cover much in the way of cast bars, as we have enough trouble keeping up with coins, but we do dabble when we think it's something you'll like. That's the case with this new bar from Germania Mint, which is designed and presented as if it were one of their standard bullion coins, [...]