A spliff a day keeps the doctor away! Or was that an apple? Who cares, the wacky baccy numismaty returns. Numicollect's new selection is now upon us and it includes a pair of old friends. Issued in 2016 as part of their long running Famous Plants range, and the last that we know of, it featured [...]
The Royal Mint's Shengxiao Lunar series emerges in proof form for the Year of the Tiger The Royal Mint has launched its latest Shengxiao Lunar entrant and it's for the 2022 Year of the Tiger. The ninth in the series to date, it's actually the third release in their first full lunar cycle, at which point [...]
Another new limited mintage silver bullion coin series from APMEX debuted last year, called 'Celtic Animals'. Similar in concept to their 'Mandala Animals' series, it depicts animals not in a natural form, but instead constructed from the symbology associated with that culture. They look like they've been constructed almost as if in a small, intricate tattoo style.They look [...]
The iconic Ancient Egyptian Scarab is brought to life with CIT's gorgeous new dimensional silver coin There's never been a shortage of modern coins featuring the Ancient Egyptian dynastic civilisation, hardly surprising given it persevered for almost three millennia. The sheer scale of monumental construction, the wide variety of iconography and art, and the breadth of [...]
Germania Mint's core 'Germania' range returns with an expanded six-format range and an adaptive design A coin producer that has managed to impress us greatly in it's relatively short life releasing its own designs under its own name, the Germania Mint has forged a faux nation from the ancient world and carefully crafted a range of [...]
We don't cover a huge amount of undenominated stuff here, escpecially bullion bars, but there are products released that fit our market coverage quite well. Scottsdale Mint's new Archangel Michael silver bar is one such example. Quite similar in concept to the Royal Mints Britannia and Una & the Lion bars, this one takes an iconic classical [...]
First appearing in 2017, the Barbados Trident is back again with another mildly tweaked design, and in the full range of three sizes for a simultaneous release. The 'tweaking' continues to be constrained to the background field, which has passed through various geometric and wavey patterns to the ringed geometric wavey pattern you can see here. It's [...]
UPDATED: The Royal Mint continues its 'Myths & Legends' bullion range with the second Robin Hood coin - Maid Marian Ostensibly the replacement for the Queen's Beasts series, the Royal Mint's 'Myths and Legends' program will also tape into the rich tapestry of British history to produce something they hope coin collectors and stackers will desire to [...]
LPM's striking 'Ancient Warriors' shaped silver coin series heads to Sparta for its second release The Samurai mask coin launched by LPM back in May was a striking piece of coin art showing off the extravagant style of the JUapanese warriors Kabuto headgear. This time we're on more familiar territory with he helmet worn by the [...]
Scottsdale goes off-world for its latest bullion coin selection, Alien, in silver, gold and glow-in-the-dark One of the most inventive and varied bullion coin producers of the last decade, Scottsdale Mint is both prolific in its selection, and keeps a high standard of quality. Themes and nations are more diverse than anyone else out there, [...]
