Music Legends continues its numismatic journey through British music with mod icons, The Who The Royal Mint's journey through the numismatic music charts continues with seminal 60's band, The Who. The 'Music Legends' series has already had Queen, Elton John, and David Bowie releases, all of which were decent encapsulations of the artists in question, in [...]
Four Heavenly Kings coin series continues with Chiguotian, the King of the East, and the'Upholder of the Nation' Last year, Pela-Coins and the Mint of Poland released the first of their 'Four Heavenly Kings' silver coins. Each of the kings guards one of the major compass directions, and the first coin featured Duowentian, the leader of [...]
The 3,000+ year old Chinese Shu culture launches a new coin series looking at the history of Latitude 30 civilisations Stretching back in time deeper than the Great Wall, the Terracotta Army, and the Emperors, is the ancient Shu Kingdom. While much of it is still shrouded in mystery, the 1986 discovery of a major [...]
Thor's legendary weapon of choice, Mjolnir, is reproduced in miniature for MDM's latest dimensional silver coin We could describe how the story of Mjolnir, the famed weapon of choice of the Norse Thunder God Thor, was first told in Skáldskaparmál from Snorri’s Edda. Of how it was forged as the result of a bet between Loki, Sindri, [...]
Wonder Woman follows Batman as the second release in the New Zealand Mint's DC Comics bullion range It seems that popular culture continues its inroads into the bullion coin market with the New Zealand Mint expanding its DC Comics range. Batman debuted via exclusive distributor EMK back in January, and now fellow Justice League [...]
Hercules undertakes his fifth labour of cleaning the Augean Stables on the latest in a twelve coin series We're pretty sure than when Hercules was given his next task, he didn't think it would involve moving mountains of cow crap. Such is the life of the demi-god, we guess. A stable filled with 3,000 immortal cattle that [...]
The Unicorn, the mystical nag with a skewer on its head, is the star of the second of the Czech Mints 'Mythical Beasts' series for 2021, and the sixth overall since it debuted last year. Given how imaginative the Ancient Greeks were when it came to inventing creatures for their tales, the Unicorn is a fairly sedate looking [...]
Peter Rabbit returns to the Royal Mint with a new format and a new visual style It seems Peter isn't ready for the stew yet as the Royal Mint have brought him back for a sixth year of releases, but with all new formats and a refreshed, and no doubt controversial, artistic look. Just the one [...]
It's St. Georges Day and PMC issues a striking copper-cored coin of the legendary dragon slayer It's April 23rd, which means St.Georges Day (and the 56th Mik's day...), so what better way to celebrate than a striking new entrant into Precious Metal Collector's 'Spectre' range of copper cored coins. For those unfamiliar with the concept, [...]
Elton John's charity foundation gets a boost with the auction of a one-off 5kg custom silver medallion The Royal Mint has had huge success with its 'Music Legends' series of proof and bullion coins, which to date has enjoyed three issues. Kicking that series off was ;Queen', followed by 'Elton John', and 'David Bowie', all [...]
