King Charles I joins King Charles III on the sixth in the Royal Mint's 'British Monarchs' proof coin series The Royal Mint's 21-coin, 5-year 'British Monarchs Collection', bringing back to life classic coin designs from British history, returns with a sixth issue, and it's from the Stuart dynasty this time. Covering the Tudor, Stuart, Hanover, and [...]
Just as they did with their excellent Babylon two-ounce coin, the first in this 'Lost Civilisations' series, Numiscollect are releasing a bigger five-ounce version of the second, Phoenicia and Carthage. As before, there are no changes to the design or layout of the coin, it's simply bigger, and with a mintage of just 149 pieces, considerably rarer.An impressive series, [...]
The Royal Mint's flagship Britannia proof coin range for 2023 debuts in a full range of sizes and in silver, gold, and platinum The 2023 proof Britannia range, arguably the Royal Mint's flagship product, has debuted today, with an all-new design by Jonathan Olliffe, and using the effigy of King Charles III by Martin Jennings. As [...]
While tracing its roots back to the 1880s with its balloon forces, the Italian Air Force, Regia Aeronautica, was created as an independent force on 28 March 1923 by King Vittorio Emanuele III. From early operations in Ethiopia, it grew to fielding over 3,000 aircraft during the Second World War. Split when Italy changed sides in 1943, it [...]
The Royal Mint's Tudor Beasts welcomes the Bull of Clarence to its ranks, the fourth issue to date Tudor Beast's returns with the Bull of Clarence. The spiritual successor to the Royal Mint's 'Queen's Beasts' series, this is the fourth in a ten-coin, five-year series, made up of proof gold and silver coins in various formats, [...]
Numiscollect draws upon the fascinating subject of African rock art for its first in a new Prehistoric Art silver coin As far as the world of art goes, is there anything more fascinating and mysterious as prehistoric rock art? Away from the sheer pretentiousness of much of the art world, especially the often comically appalling [...]
The tenth issue in Numiscollect's fascinating 'Archaeology and Symbolism' series features one of the most fascinating objects from the ancient world - the Antikythera Mechanism. Described as possibly the oldest example of an analogue computer, it was designed to predict astronomical positions and eclipses, perhaps decades in advance. Work on exactly how it was designed is still the subject [...]
WMF '23: The epic destruction of Pompeii in 79 AD inspires Numiscollect's first Fury of Nature coin Numiscollect's latest series is simply called 'Fury of Nature', and as we're discovering to this very day (the NZ Mint's city of Auckland is currently flooded, for example), nothing shows fury like Mother Nature herself. It's a clever idea [...]
The Royal Mint returns to Tudor times with a remastered portrait of Henry VIII for its fifth British Monarchs coin The fifth release in the Royal Mint's 'British Monarchs Collection' is here, and launches the series second journey through time by returning to its Tudor beginnings. If you've yet to encounter this series, it is a [...]
Coins Today brings the world of chess into stackable silver bullion, launching a pawn-inspired design with a twist South Korean producer, Coins Today's 'Stackable' range of bullion, grows a little more with another highly unusual, and visually striking addition. There have been some terrific issues in this range, with some, like one replicating the shield of [...]
