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 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 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 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 [...]
A stunning stackable bust of Venus, and a set of cupcakes, comprise Coin's Today's latest silver oddities South Korean producer, Coin's Today, has been busy, and we've got another pair of new issues which display the usual mix of inventiveness, and quality design. One of the two is another of those unusual little sets that [...]
Le Grand Mint adds two new gold and silver minted bar designs - The Eagle and the Serpent, and Fors Fortuna Along with a fine and uniquely designed range of proof and bullion coins, Le Grand Mint also produces some neat minted bars, something we haven't covered a lot of in the past, but we've been [...]
Launched way back in 2003, to much acclaim, the Austrian Mint's innovative Niobium series was quite unlike anything else out there at the time. A silver ring, inset into which is a disc made of a metal called niobium. This is quite unusual in that it can be coloured using anodised oxidation, rather than requiring the application [...]
The signs of the zodiac, and goddesses from around the world feature on a new 5oz silver coin from Coins Australia, and the Perth Mint The signs of the zodiac are one of those perennial themes in the modern coin world, with one or two series in progress at any one time, but most of them [...]
It isn't just the wildlife Down Under that's brightly coloured and capable of finishing you off, it seems the food is as well! Fairy bread is a favourite for kids, and no doubt adults, in Australia and New Zealand, and is basically a buttered slice of bread covered in hundreds and thousands (sprinkles). Easy to make, easy to [...]
The Royal Australian Mint has been issuing some fine bullion coins of late, and their Lunar Calendar range is one of the more popular. We've covered most of them to date, and you can see the whole range, along with most of the RAM's recent output, in our comprehensive Bullion Profile summary of them all.However, there's been a [...]
