One of the more unusual coin series of recent years, the Crown Mint's bottle cap coin homage to Coca-Cola was a popular item in 2018, that reached new heights with an interesting ten coin series through 2020. Called 'World Edition', it reproduced caps from ten different and diverse nations around the world, all done in colour on [...]
It was back in June 2020 that we covered the first of Mint XXI's new 'Goddesses of Health' range of 50 gram, 50 mm diameter silver coins. We had to laugh about the unfortunate timing of the release, just as a global pandemic took hold, but it was a very vibrantly coloured, antique-finished coin, with a bit [...]
Art Mint's elegant 'Mandala Art' series returns for a seventh release with a striking Turkish inspired design We've long admired Art Mint's flagship 'Mandala' series of coins, and it's been a pleasure to watch it grow in ambition and intricacy since it debuted in 2015. The last two issues in particular, the Gothic and the Persian, [...]
One of the big bullion hits this year, the first Germania Beast's coin from Germania Mint was a striking double-coin spread design featuring Fafnir, a dragon from Norse and Germanic mythology. A clever idea, beautifully realised, it rightly became a hit, with the special Germinus versions changing hands for high prices. We're just prepping a look at [...]
Okay, this is where thing get really weird. MDM debut their silver coin celebration of a century of Haribo Everyone knows the Haribo Goldbear, and now it joins that other perennial favourite of the confectionary world, PEZ, in having its long-running existence celebrated in silver. It was a hundred years ago that this mix of, sometimes [...]
The annual Carnival of Venice was initially a celebration started from a victory of the Venice Republic against the Patriarch of Aquileia, Ulrico di Treven in the year 1162. Taking the form of a dance in San Marco Square, it grew in popularity and became a fixture of the calendar. However, Venice fell under the rule of [...]
LPM launches a new Street Fighter bullion coin series with an attractive Ryu debut release We've already remarked about the big uptick in coins celebrating the videogame world, and that doesn't seem like abating anytime soon. Latest to appear in the numismatic arcades is the next in LPM's Street Fighter homage, following their Mini-Figure coins, and [...]
The ancient world's relationship with the Equinox and the Solstice is explored on Numiscollect's latest silver coin During the dawn of humanities great civilisations, the people looked to the stars when trying to make sense of the world around them. It makes sense when you think about it. You can directly link the heat of the [...]
The Royal Mint kicks off its epic 'Queen's Platinum Jubilee Collection' with an all-new design for the classic Sovereign We rarely get excited when a new Sovereign coin drops, just as we don't when the annual Maple Leaf, Philharmonic or American Eagle release comes around, but occasionally, the Royal Mint does something to commemorate a royal event, [...]
A round-up of new releases at the Mint of Poland - from ancient history to modern love One of the most innovative and prolific mints out there, we've long admired the Mint of Poland for its great design and fine strikes. A huge player in the ultra-popular ancient world genre of coins, they actually cover a [...]
