Mint XXI moves from Noah’s Ark to the Tower of Babel in its numismatic journey through bible classics After a superb debut last year with a Noah's Ark coin, Mint XXI's 'Fundamental Stories of the Bible' series returns with a second coin, and it's another core tale from the Old Testament. The Tower of Babel is meant [...]
Coins Today brings the world of chess into stackable silver bullion, launching a pawn-inspired design with a twist Never let it be said that the minds behind South Korean producer, Coins Today's 'Stackable' range of bullion, aren't imaginative. From ancient Korean history, to outer space technology, via medieval Europe and modern pop-culture, this range has thrown [...]
Mint XXI launches its latest series, a 4-year, 3-weight, 36-coin dive into the vibrant world of Greek mythology It's fair to say the ancient world has been comprehensively mined for inspiration in the coin world, and with a standard of quality that's sky-high. Such luminaries as CIT, Mint of Poland, Mint XXI, Numiscollect, and more, [...]
Germania Beast's returns with the giant wolf from Norse mythology, Fenrir, in the latest coin spanning design Back after a very successful debut last year, Germania Beasts continues with another of the iconic creatures populating the old Northern European myths and legends. It was the dragon Fafnir, that became an integral part of the composer, [...]
We've repeatedly commented on the ever earlier launch of lunar coins, often appearing up to a year before the actual change date, but the Year of the Dragon seems to exacerbate that even further. Probably the most popular of the lunar animals, it next comes around in early 2024 - yes, that's right, 2024 - but we've already [...]
Yale of Beaufort continues the Royal Mint’s journey through Henry VIII’s ‘Tudor Beasts’, a show of love to Jane Seymour It's time for the next in the Tudor Beasts series, the flagship sequel to the Royal Mint's much-loved 'Queen's Beasts' series, which debuted last year with the 'Seymour Panther' in proof form. This is to be a [...]
'We all live in a yellow submarine shaped coin'. The Crown Mint debuts its homage to the iconic Beatles song and film UPDATE: The Crown Mint has closed down, so this series, and everything else they do, is dead.When the conversation turns to a discussion on favourite bands, it's fair to say The Beatles will be [...]
Coin's Today debuts their latest silver stackable bullion coin, featuring the intricacies of the Aztec Sun Stone The stackable bullion coins from South Korean producer, Coins Today, have rapidly become one of our favourite ranges on the market today, encompassing a mix of the modern, and the ancient, mainly centred around two series - Masks, [...]
After PEZ and Sweethearts, MTB/PAMP adds Bazooka bubblegum to its range of silver bullion homages to classic sweets In the early 1950s, the Topps Company, famous now for its trading card business, tasked cartoonist Wesley Morse with creating a new set of characters for comics to go with the 'Bazooka' bubblegum it had released in 1947 He [...]
Tonka, the indestructible toy we broke all our other toys with, is 75 years old. Don't use the new coin to do the same... From humble beginnings at a company, Mound Metalcraft, making gardening tools, Tonka grew to be one of the most iconic toy brands in history. Taking its name from the Dakota Sioux name 'tanka', [...]
