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. [...]
Big Monday: MDM Wholesale brings it's multi-layer silver coin technique to Mesoamerican history, with a kilogram look at Inca culture The largest empire in the Americas in the period before the arrival of Columbus, the Incas controlled a huge swathe of the western coast of South America, starting in the early 13th century, ending in 1572, [...]
Berlin WMF 25: Mint XXI kicks off the year with over a dozen new coins. Here's our first look at three of them. The 2025 World Money Fair in Berlin kicks off next week, and the big producers are announcing their first big releases of the year. One of those we most look forward to [...]
The Valkyries range joins their namesake in Valhalla, as Arnhild marks the conclusion of Germania Mint's silver coin series Another series starts off 2025 by ending, sadly, and here it's Arnhild, who ends the four-coin series 'Valkyries' from Germania Mint. These Valkyries, who carried the souls of the bravest fallen Norse warriors from the battlefield to [...]
Egypt, one of the greatest civilisations in history, is the third subject of Art Mint's award-winning silver coin series After an award-winning first issue in which Art Mint debuted a superb new coin showcasing the ancient Mesopotamian Sumerian civilisation, which they followed up with an equally impressive look at the Indus Valley culture. The third coin [...]
