Lucky Dragon 05 Xuánhuá one-ounce coloured silver bar (2025 Scottsdale Mint)

By |2025-04-22T11:41:31+01:00April 22nd, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Culture, Coloured, Scottsdale Mint|

The five-bar 'Lucky Dragon' range, from Scottsdale Mint, has come to an end with the debut today of the final design. These bars have released every week over the last month, but each is only sold for seven days, starting on a Monday. The mintage is set at whatever the orders are for that week. There's also a [...]

It’s April 2025, so we thought it was time for a little bullion coin catch-up on new releases

By |2025-04-15T20:39:54+01:00April 15th, 2025|Categories: Bullion roundup, Culture, Bullion, Australia, Nature, Gold, Bank of China, Silver, Canada, Italy, IPZS Italy, Perth Mint, St Kitts & St Nevis, St Vincent & Grenadines, Scottsdale Mint|

It's April 2025, so we thought it was time for a little bullion coin catch-up on new releases I thought it was time for another catch-up on recent bullion coin debuts, so here we are. The idea was originally to make these a regular feature, but honestly, it's too much work collating and editing images, so we'll [...]

Lucky Dragon 04 Kuángyǐng one-ounce coloured silver bar (2025 Scottsdale Mint)

By |2025-04-14T18:34:14+01:00April 14th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Culture, Coloured, Scottsdale Mint|

As we reported a few days ago, the new five-bar range from Scottsdale Mint, called 'Lucky Dragon', sees the fourth issue drop today. The bars are released every week, for five weeks, and only sold for that week. The mintage is capped at whatever the orders are for that week.The fourth is called Kuángyǐng, and is yet another [...]

Jesus Cross 1oz silver coin (2025 Precious Metal Collectors)

By |2025-04-11T11:19:04+01:00April 11th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Culture, Silver, Chad, Precious Metal Collectors|

Here's a quick look at a new version of a coin that Precious Metal Collectors released back in 2023. Shaped like a wooden cross, it's adorned with the image of Jesus on both faces. On the reverse, it bears the inscription 'INRI', which is Latin for Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum, meaning “Jesus the Nazarene, King of the [...]

Fried Egg 16.8 gram silver coin (2025 Mint of Poland)

By |2025-04-08T09:49:23+01:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Culture, Coloured, Silver, Cameroon, Mint of Poland|

We thought we'd throw in something a little light-hearted, and what better way to start the day than a fried egg. The Mint of Poland has always had a penchant for the unusual, and this certainly fits that description. It isn't the first time we've had an egg coin, with even the revered Monnaie de Paris [...]

Lucky Dragon 03 Tianyi one-ounce coloured silver bar (2025 Scottsdale Mint)

By |2025-04-07T22:54:29+01:00April 7th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Culture, Coloured, Scottsdale Mint|

A few days ago, we reported on a new five-bar range from Scottsdale Mint with a rather intense release schedule. Called 'Lucky Dragon', the bars are released every week, for five weeks, and only sold for that week. The mintage is capped at whatever the orders are for that week. The third came out today (above), and [...]

Lucky Dragon one-ounce coloured silver bar (2025 Scottsdale Mint)

By |2025-04-07T22:58:00+01:00April 3rd, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Culture, Coloured, Scottsdale Mint|

We've been covering Scottsdale Mint's ever-expanding range of coloured, one-ounce, minted silver bars for a while now, as we feel they do have some crossover with the coin market, having a reliance on artistic design. This particular range encompasses quite a few different themes, and we collected them all into one of our Bullion Profiles, so feel free [...]

Pop Coins brings their alien coin range into high relief with a two-ounce ‘Grey’, and it’s coming for you

By |2025-03-31T13:08:32+01:00March 31st, 2025|Categories: Culture, Silver, Numiscollect|

Pop Coins brings their alien coin range into high relief with a two-ounce 'Grey', and it's coming for you Pop Coins released a ten-coin series of AI-generated Alien coins last July, part of a larger range including pets, dinosaurs, travel, and culture, and some of them have since doubled in size to two-ounces. All of them [...]

The Mint of Poland celebrates Cleopatra, the work of Józef Chełmoński, and the Japanese tradition of Hanami

By |2025-03-28T13:24:17+00:00March 28th, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, History, Coloured, Silver, Cameroon, Niue Island, Mint of Poland|

The Mint of Poland celebrates Cleopatra, the work of Józef Chełmoński, and the Japanese tradition of Hanami It's been a little while since we visited the new releases from the Mint of Poland, despite quite a few of many producers coins being struck by them. I've chosen three of the latest, including an Egyptian one [...]

The Dragon & Phoenix myth is a popular theme in numismatics. Le Grand Mint elevates it to a new level with a stunning new issue

By |2025-03-26T16:53:39+00:00March 26th, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, Gilded, Ruthenium / Rhodium, Silver, Le Grand Mint, Niue Island|

The Dragon & Phoenix myth is a popular theme in numismatics. Le Grand Mint elevates it to a new level with a stunning new issue One of the most powerful relationships in Chinese mythology, the story of the Dragon & the Phoenix is one that, like most Asian myths, has many different incarnations, some involving a [...]

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