Classic Manx numismatic legends, the Noble and the Angel, return in expansive ranges of gold and silver from Tower Mint While we often cover coins that are unusual in subject, pushing boundaries technically, or simply quite unique in concept, there will always be a place for the classics, because there's little that encapsulates history as much [...]
Pik Coins wraps up its four-coin true-crime series 'The Gangsters' with one of the most iconic mob bosses - Lucky Luciano True crime is a hugely popular subject to this day, the inspiration for countless television shows, and Hollywood films, and in its own right. Documentary series on channels like Netflix, regularly top the charts, [...]
The latest in Precious Metal Collector's copious line-up of fine art coins is now available to order, and this time it's a 1799 work by Jacques-Louis Davis, called 'The Intervention of the Sabine Women'. The painting is based around the story of early Rome, who set out to raid the neighbouring Sabine people, and capture their [...]
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 [...]
It's 80 years since the biggest war in human history ended. The East India Company marks the momentous anniversary On the 8th of May 2025, the world celebrates the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, On this day in 1945, Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allies, bringing to an end the war in the [...]
The turning point of the Pacific Theatre in WWII, the Battle of Midway, is brought into focus on the Lithuanian Mint's latest silver coin Battles that change the direction of a war are few and far between. Many wars grind on for years, going back and forth, and that seemed to be the case in [...]
The Royal Mint's 'Queens Beasts Completer' coins make the transition to gold and silver bullion bars From 2016 to 2021, the Royal Mint ran a programme of bullion coins called 'The Queen's Beasts', featuring representations of ten heraldic animals originally sculpted by James Woodford RA for the coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II, held in [...]
The Cretaceous extinction event that ended the reign of the dinosaurs is fertile inspiration for Numiscollect's latest silver coin Mass extinctions are short geological periods in which a large percentage of the Earth's biodiversity disappears, even down to microbial life. Our world has experienced at least five such events, the third of which, occurring at [...]
The Carpathian Mint adds Barbarians to its Woman Warriors series of 2 oz silver coins, the fifth to date. Despite the backlash to Hollywood's ridiculous creation of female heroes beating up men three times their size, over recent years, the fact remains that woman have made formidable warriors throughout historical lore, and even in reality. [...]
The Lithuanian Mint goes from 1850's California, to the Roaring 1920's of New York with two new Liberian high-relief silver coins We've long been partial to the Lithuanian Mint, especially for their eclectic designs, often emanating from the creative minds of local artists, like the superb 'World of Cryptids' series, and the pretty 'Elements' series. [...]
