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Coins Today’s epic stackable bullion range add beautiful shaped designs from Ancient Egypt, and from Norse mythology
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Coins Today’s epic stackable bullion range add beautiful shaped designs from Ancient Egypt, and from Norse mythology

Coins Today’s epic stackable bullion range add beautiful shaped designs from Ancient Egypt, and from Norse mythology

By Mik Woodgate|2023-12-11T15:21:34+00:00December 11th, 2023|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Bullion, Silver, Coins Today KR|

Coins Today's epic stackable bullion range add beautiful shaped designs from Ancient Egypt, and from Norse mythology Coin's Today have a stackable range of silver bullion second to none. Designs ranging from medieval shields, through historical religious iconography, to scientific achievements, have all been given the stackable treatment. What puts these up on a pedestal, is [...]

Art Mint immortalises the Mesopotamian Sumerians, on the first of its 7 Ancient Civilisations silver coin series
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Art Mint immortalises the Mesopotamian Sumerians, on the first of its 7 Ancient Civilisations silver coin series

Art Mint immortalises the Mesopotamian Sumerians, on the first of its 7 Ancient Civilisations silver coin series

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-29T18:37:00+00:00November 29th, 2023|Categories: Architecture, History, Art Mint, Coloured, Silver, Cameroon|

Art Mint immortalises the Mesopotamian Sumerians, on the first of its 7 Ancient Civilisations silver coin series Emerging in the early Bronze Age in what is now south-central Iraq (southern Mesopotamia), Sumer is one of the first civilisations in human history, certainly in the wider region. Situated in an immensely fertile region around the valleys of [...]

Time for fish & chips! Coin’s Today grows its quirky silver bullion offerings with the Silver Fish, and the Value Disk
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Time for fish & chips! Coin’s Today grows its quirky silver bullion offerings with the Silver Fish, and the Value Disk

Time for fish & chips! Coin’s Today grows its quirky silver bullion offerings with the Silver Fish, and the Value Disk

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-30T11:02:34+00:00November 29th, 2023|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Bullion, Silver, Coins Today KR|

Time for fish & chips! Coin's Today grows its quirky silver bullion offerings with the Silver Fish, and the Value Disk Coins Today are back with another pair of highly unusual offerings in their silver range, and they couldn't be any more different from each other than they are. We've had an extraordinarily diverse selection from [...]

The Czech Mint rounds out the second of three sets of four Second World War tank coins with the fearsome Panther
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The Czech Mint rounds out the second of three sets of four Second World War tank coins with the fearsome Panther

The Czech Mint rounds out the second of three sets of four Second World War tank coins with the fearsome Panther

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-27T10:50:51+00:00November 27th, 2023|Categories: History, Military, Gold, Silver, Czech Mint, Niue Island|

The Czech Mint rounds out the second of three sets of four Second World War tank coins with the fearsome Panther In 2022, the Czech Mint debuted a new four-coin series featuring one of my favourite thing - tanks. This isn't a popular subject in numismatic circles, with military hardware seemingly less popular than ever, [...]

Minigold’s biggest cheerleader, CIT Coin Invest, expands its already wide and varied range with five new coins
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Minigold’s biggest cheerleader, CIT Coin Invest, expands its already wide and varied range with five new coins

Minigold’s biggest cheerleader, CIT Coin Invest, expands its already wide and varied range with five new coins

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-24T21:04:23+00:00November 24th, 2023|Categories: History, Nature, Sport, Cook Islands, CIT Coin Invest, Palau|

Minigold's biggest cheerleader, CIT Coin Invest, expands its already wide and varied range with five new coins So what do we consider a minigold? Basically, gold coins under a gram in weight fall under this general classification, and it's become particularly associated with the 1/2 gram weight, as the majority of issues in this class tip [...]

Amenhotep and Nefertiti, the love story that scandalised an ancient empire, star on a new coin from T&S
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Amenhotep and Nefertiti, the love story that scandalised an ancient empire, star on a new coin from T&S

Amenhotep and Nefertiti, the love story that scandalised an ancient empire, star on a new coin from T&S

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-21T17:24:09+00:00November 21st, 2023|Categories: History, Gilded, Silver, Cameroon, T&S Coins|

Amenhotep and Nefertiti, the love story that scandalised an ancient empire, star on a new coin from T&S Amenhotep IV, also known as Akhenaten, was one of the most polarising Pharaohs in the history of the Ancient Egyptian empire. Long the place where dozens of gods were worshipped, Akhenaten turned all that on its head, choosing [...]

MDM dives into multiple ancient cultures with Norse, Japanese, and Egyptian themes immortalised in silver and gold
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MDM dives into multiple ancient cultures with Norse, Japanese, and Egyptian themes immortalised in silver and gold

MDM dives into multiple ancient cultures with Norse, Japanese, and Egyptian themes immortalised in silver and gold

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-17T19:28:38+00:00November 17th, 2023|Categories: History, Gilded, Silver, Cook Islands, MDM, Samoa, Solomon Islands|

MDM dives into multiple ancient cultures with Norse, Japanese, and Egyptian themes immortalised in silver and gold Continuing our look at the new releases in MDM's Autumn release, and sticking with the unintentional theme of the week - the ancient world - we have three new releases here, all very different in style, and subject. [...]

Spectres stays in the ancient historical world, following Hannibal Barca with another Roman nemesis – Cleopatra
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Spectres stays in the ancient historical world, following Hannibal Barca with another Roman nemesis – Cleopatra

Spectres stays in the ancient historical world, following Hannibal Barca with another Roman nemesis – Cleopatra

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-15T17:04:20+00:00November 15th, 2023|Categories: History, Military, Silver, Chad, Spectres|

Spectres stays in the ancient historical world, following Hannibal Barca with another Roman nemesis - Cleopatra One of the most famous women in history, Cleopatra VII, the last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, was born in 69 BCE in Alexandria, the cultural and intellectual centre of the Hellenistic world. She belonged to the Ptolemaic dynasty, a Greek [...]

Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s amazing Terracotta Army was discovered fifty years ago, and MDM celebrates in silver
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Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s amazing Terracotta Army was discovered fifty years ago, and MDM celebrates in silver

Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s amazing Terracotta Army was discovered fifty years ago, and MDM celebrates in silver

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-15T13:00:20+00:00November 15th, 2023|Categories: History, Silver, Fiji, MDM|

Emperor Qin Shi Huang's amazing Terracotta Army was discovered fifty years ago, and MDM celebrates in silver We're kicking off our coverage of MDM's new release batch for the 2023 Beijing Coin Expo with, appropriately enough, an icon of China - the famous Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. It was fifty years ago, in [...]

Spectres brings Hannibal Barca, the Roman Empire’s greatest nemesis, to life in a high-relief silver coin
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Spectres brings Hannibal Barca, the Roman Empire’s greatest nemesis, to life in a high-relief silver coin

Spectres brings Hannibal Barca, the Roman Empire’s greatest nemesis, to life in a high-relief silver coin

By Mik Woodgate|2023-11-08T17:43:41+00:00November 8th, 2023|Categories: History, Military, Silver, Chad, Spectres|

Spectres brings Hannibal Barca, the Roman Empire's greatest nemesis, to life in a high-relief silver coin It isn't many people that make their names fighting a behemoth, but Hannibal Barca, the renowned Carthaginian general, is remembered as one of history's greatest military strategists, particularly for his audacious and innovative tactics during the Second Punic War (218-201 [...]