Asian Mythical Creatures: Nine-Tailed Fox silver bullion coin (2023 LPM Group)

By |2022-11-18T17:08:26+00:00November 18th, 2022|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Culture, Bullion, Silver, LPM HK, Samoa|

Hong-Kong based dealer, LPM Group, has a fine reputation for inventive bullion coins series, and the latest to join their repertoire is 'Asian Mythical Creatures'. The mythology of East and SE Asian cultures has seen quite a surge in popularity over the last few years, so there's a ready market for it, and it doesn't seem to have reached [...]

Tina’s View, Coins Today’s innovative numismatic look at a tourist’s journey around the world, debuts in Paris

By |2022-11-07T15:15:59+00:00November 7th, 2022|Categories: Culture, Inserts, Silver, Chad, Coins Today KR|

Tina’s View, Coins Today’s innovative numismatic look at a tourist's journey around the world, debuts in Paris It's always good to see something genuinely different, and in numismatic terms at least, we reside in times when that is very much a reality. The latest emanates from South Korean producer, Coins Today, no stranger to innovation. The world's [...]

The Vairochana Buddha coin is the latest issue in Numiscollect’s journey though history’s cultural artifacts

By |2022-10-26T23:44:52+01:00October 26th, 2022|Categories: Culture, History, Gilded, Silver, Mongolia, Numiscollect|

'The Vairochana Buddha coin is the latest issue in Numiscollect's journey though history's cultural artifacts One of the best coin series depicting mankind's cultural heritage, Numiscollect's 'Archaeology and Symbolism' showcases some of the fine artifacts and concepts from past centuries. To date, there have been eight releases, covering civilisations from multiple continents, and millennia. What we [...]

Love: Under the Sheets, is a unique numismatic look at a couple’s quiet tender moments

By |2022-10-24T09:07:34+01:00October 24th, 2022|Categories: Culture, Silver, Cameroon, Carpathian Mint|

Love: Under the Sheets, is a unique numismatic look at a couple's quiet tender moments We like the unusual here. No surprise when you realise how many coins we not only see, but have to write about, and our biggest enemy is repetition. Carpathian mint's latest certainly fits the bill. We do see love and romance [...]

Santa Claus silver PEZ set (2022 MTB/PAMP)

By |2022-10-20T20:55:04+01:00October 20th, 2022|Categories: Quicklooks, Culture, Event, Silver, PAMP|

Still ticking along, MTB-PAMP's neat little silver PEZ homage continues with a seventh release, the fourth of them themed for the Christmas holiday. The PEZ candy market remains huge, and collecting the plastic dispensers is a market all of its own, so a bullion product tapping into that was always a good idea, since continued with Bazooka Joe bubblegum, [...]

The Royal Mint commemorates a century of the BBC – from news of the empire, to the Teletubbies

By |2022-10-10T09:57:35+01:00October 10th, 2022|Categories: Culture, Movies & TV, Gold, Silver, United Kingdom, Royal Mint|

The Royal Mint commemorates a century of the BBC - from news of the empire, to the Teletubbies The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is an absolute giant in the media world. Not only the oldest national broadcaster in the world, and the biggest, it's also likely the most recognised wherever you are in the world. Established [...]

The Ancient Chinese legend of the Eight Immortals is the inspiration for the Carpathian Mint’s latest release

By |2022-10-07T19:08:23+01:00October 7th, 2022|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, Coloured, Carpathian Mint, Niue Island|

The Ancient Chinese legend of the Eight Immortals is the inspiration for the Carpathian Mint's latest release After several years of high activity, it's been a little quieter in the coin world on the Chinese mythology front of late. There are still a couple of series in progress, and Precious Metal Collectors have an extremely eclectic [...]

The Greek god of the Sun, Helios, joins Numiscollect’s superb Ancient Gods series of smartminted silver coins

By |2022-10-06T14:15:39+01:00October 6th, 2022|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, Silver, Cook Islands, Numiscollect|

The Greek god of the Sun, Helios, joins Numiscollect's superb Ancient Gods series of smartminted silver coins Helios was the Ancient Greek personification of the sun, and a deity that grew in prominence as Greek and Roman cultures began to merge in late antiquity. Like all the old gods, he also had quite a few side [...]

The Royal Mint unveils the new effigy of King Charles III and a pair of coins that will feature it

By |2022-09-30T01:47:43+01:00September 30th, 2022|Categories: Culture, History, Marketwatch, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

The Royal Mint unveils the new effigy of King Charles III and a pair of coins that will feature it The sad death of Queen Elizabeth II was an event that's been long planned for, it eventually comes to all of us, of course, and amongst those plans was the change in effigy used on the [...]

Aphrodite joins LPM’s Goddeses of Olympus bullion range in both gold and silver

By |2022-09-29T10:32:26+01:00September 29th, 2022|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, Bullion, Silver, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|

Aphrodite joins LPM's Goddeses of Olympus bullion range in both gold and silver The latest bullion version of the Perth Mint's iconic 'Gods' series of antiqued numismatics has just debuted, and is the sixth to date. Following the original pattern of release, this is the third and last of the Goddesses of Olympus trilogy, which itself [...]

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