The Royal Mint adds a ninth British star to their Music Legends series, and it's the legendary ex-Beatle, Paul McCartney The Royal Mints popular Music Legends range continues today with the launch of the ninth in the series to date. A wide range of proof formats make up the series, in both gold and silver, [...]
The legendary literary masterpiece, Don Quixote, inspires a quirky, and amazing new coin over at T&S Coins. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was in September 1547 and, like Shakespeare, is widely regarded as the greatest writer in his native language, in his case Spanish. Cervantes had a far more interesting life outside of literature than Shakespeare [...]
The One Who Waits - the Grim Reaper - launches a chilling new six-coin series called 'Figures of Death' Throughout history, cultures, including the greatest civilisations, have held a fascination with death and the afterlife. Particularly famous examples are the Aztecs, whose gruesome sacrifices to the gods of war and death are the stuff of [...]
The most varied selection yet in our weekly look at some of the new coin releases (Week 47, 2024) A bit later than normal, here's our weekly round-up of some of the more interesting releases that have come to our attention over the last week. We should have been live on Friday, but we had a small [...]
The Fender Stratocaster guitar is 70 years old and a new mystery coin box offers the chance at one of five iconic colour schemes The latest, and possibly the ultimate example of Fender guitar-shaped coins is this new set, tapping into the randomised contents nature of the New Zealand Mint’s Trading Coin concept, although in a [...]
Germania Mint rounds out its popular Goddesses range of cast bars with Nerthus, along with a beautiful Breast Cancer Awareness design Sadly, today sees the day we feature the last in Germania Mint's hugely attractive Goddesses series of two-ounce cast bars. The six-bar series debuted at the beginning of the year, and is ending right [...]
A terrific mix of historical themes mark out this week's round-up, and there's a Hot Wheels coin for good measure! (Week 46, 2024) Five new coins this week, headlined by a fantastic collaborative effort between Germania Mint and the Croatian National Bank. In fact, three of the five releases we're looking at here today have [...]
The esoteric coins keep coming! Legendary phones, AI, blingy eggs, and inspiring women (Week 45, 2024) Here we are again with our Friday collation of new coins, and while there are only four this time, it's certainly a varied mix. There's a new addition to Powercoin's look back at early tech, a highly unusual Artificial Intelligence design [...]
Precious Metal Collector's continues to add classic art pieces to their range of coins using their innovative Tri-Metal production process. Basically, this utilises a 750 gram zinc core, over which is laid 120 grams of copper, which is topped by 2.5oz of fine silver. What we end up with is a thick, and wide coin at a [...]
Mint XXI's Great Greek Mythology series enters its final year with the first of three trios of high-relief silver coins Mint XXI's terrific 'Great Greek Mythology' series today sees the debut of the tenth tranche of three coins, on its way to make a 36-coin set over four years. There's one of each size in this release, [...]
