" I am the Great Cornholio, I need T.P. for my bunghole". Beavis & Butthead Do Numismatics... South Park, Family Guy, Archer, and Rick & Morty, are all proof it isn't just kids that can have some fun with animated TV shows. Crude, crass, and often very cutting with current affairs, and societal issues, they're brilliantly [...]
Ukraine's cultural identity, and its current turmoil, are used to aid the beleaguered country with charitable coins The '3-day' invasion of Ukraine by Russia continues past its 460th day, continuing to be the most unnecessary and ill-advised conflict in Europe since the Second World War. This is a coin site, so I'm not going to espouse [...]
The Greek poet Homer's epic tale 'The Odyssey' is told in a new silver coin series from the Carpathian Mint Homer's Odyssey, an ancient Greek epic poem, chronicles the legendary journey of Odysseus as he strives to return home from the Trojan War. The epic explores themes of heroism, loyalty, temptation, and the struggle between fate [...]
Bullion round-up 18: A busy May continues with more EC8, prehistoric sea life, and modern nature from around the globe It was only on Friday last that we published a round-up of new bullion issues, but it was clear that the number of new coins was too much for a single compilation, so we did [...]
Bullion round-up 17: The Caribbean, Australia, Ancient Egypt, and the planet Krypton all feature on new coins Time for our seventeenth bullion coin round-up, and yet again, I completely underestimated the volume of new releases, and the time taken to collate it all. We were hoping to publish this yesterday, but, despite already covering a few [...]
The Carpathian Mint brings the warrior queen, Boudica, and the swashbuckling D'Artagnan to numismatic life Two new issues from the Carpathian Mint represent the start of a new series, and the continuation of an existing one. Both feature this producer's favourite format, the two-ounce, rimless, high-relief, antiqued one popularised by the Mint of Poland. It's a [...]
Spring Launch Special: Mint XXI debuts new ranges to its existing line-up, and these are our favourite three Our third and last post of the day for Spring Launch, and after a selective look at the new issues from CIT and MDM, we come to another favourite of ours, Mint XXI. We expect some beautiful coins [...]
Spring Launch Special: MDM debuts some of the quirky issues it's known for, and here are three that caught our eye Spring Launch time continues, and we carry on chipping away at the huge wave of new issues. After a look at three from CIT earlier today, we continue with a look at a second trio [...]
Spring Launch Special: CIT releases a wide range of new issues, and here are three of our favourites It's Spring Launch time, and we're absolutely inundated with new coin issues from some of the industry's biggest producers, We obviously can't cover them all on release day (there are about 80 so far!), so we'll take three [...]
Scottsdale Mint's unique hewned-edge Egyptian Relics series returns with the frog-headed god, Kek Absolutely one of our all-time favourite bullion coin series, the 'Egyptian Relics' series, and its counterparts, have matched some neat visual quirks with the perfect subject for them. Using the art of carved hieroglyphics common throughout the Egyptian empires of antiquity, they're placed [...]
