UPDATED: A new site update, with a few days off Hi All, We're going to be off for a few days, as, after a longer than expected wait, I have my second eye operation today. Hopefully, that will see things improve for me (it's all a bit depressing, to be honest), and I can finally get on [...]
Just a quick update on the site at the moment As some of you are aware, we attended the World Money Fair in Berlin late last week, and honestly, after three years of not attending (two down to Covid) it was terrific to meet folks again. We saw some quite spectacular issues, many not issuing until later [...]
The 12 Guides of better late than never: #8 - Black Flag by The Perth Mint Yes, I know I utterly failed in my over-ambitious attempt to do a '12 Guides of Christmas', but we did get seven of them out, and they are continuing. The eighth of them is now live, and features [...]
Our best wishes to all our friends. We hope your 2023 was a great one, and your 2024 will be better. Happy Holidays! Another year has passed, and hopefully, it was a better one for you than the two that came before, It's a markedly different world to the one of just five years ago, and we're [...]
The 12 Guides of Christmas: Number 7 - Tudor Beasts by The Royal Mint We're getting there! Here is the seventh of our 12 Guides of Christmas, which we'll probably rename 12 Guides of Approximately Christmas, as I've yet again underestimated the work involved. You must all be used to it by [...]
The 12 Guides of Christmas: Number 6 - Fine Art Bi-Metal Max by Precious Metal Collectors Finally hitting the halfway mark with profile number six in our '12 Guides of Christmas', this time we're looking at the Singaporean producer, Precious Metal Collectors, and their extraordinary range of copper-cored coins depicting the works of the [...]
The 12 Guides of Christmas: Number 5 - Dutch Castles Ducats by the Royal Dutch Mint Profile number five in our '12 Guides of Christmas' is now live, and features the Royal Dutch Mint's 'Dutch Castles' series of silver coins, all produced in the ducat format. This is the successor series to [...]
The 12 Guides of Christmas: Number 4 - Numismatic Icons by CIT Coin Invest The fourth of our '12 Guides of Christmas' has just been published, and it covers possibly my favourite series of coins in production today. Numismatic Icons by CIT, is a modern refresh of some of the ancient world's [...]
The 12 Guides of Christmas: Number 3 - The Great Greek Mythology by Mint XXI Our '12 Guides of Christmas' continues apace, and the next one is now live. We've gone with another series that has plenty of releases still to come, and that's Mint XXI's quite superb 'The Great Greek Mythology'. [...]
The 12 Guides of Christmas: Number 2 - Armoured Vehicles by the Czech Mint Just a heads-up that the second of our '12 Guides of Christmas' is now live, and as promised, it's the Czech Mint's excellent 'Armoured Vehicles' range that we recently got up-to-date with. Not the most festive of subjects, perhaps, (although [...]
