Numiscollect’s ‘Time Flies’ silver coin series moves from trade and discovery, to humanities greatest love – Warfare

By |2024-02-14T15:33:58+00:00February 14th, 2024|Categories: History, Military, Silver, Gabon, Numiscollect|

Numiscollect's 'Time Flies' silver coin series moves from trade and discovery, to humanities greatest love - Warfare Time Flies is a series of two-ounce silver coins from Dutch producer, Numiscollect, that takes an interesting look at the progress mankind has made through various fields of endeavours. The first coin was a neat look at discovery and [...]

Korean producer, Today, adds a new stackable with an unusual quirk, and expands two coin series with new issues

By |2024-02-14T22:39:58+00:00February 13th, 2024|Categories: Bullion, History, Coloured, Military, Nature, Silver, Chad, Coins Today KR|

Korean producer, Today, adds a new stackable with an unusual quirk, and expands two coin series with new issues As we recover from the bug, and simultaneously start to chip away at a huge backlog from the World Money Fair, we're going to rely on this format to do the heavy lifting. We'll be sacrificing some [...]

The Ukrainian War’s defiant Snake Island Incident is immortalised on Carpathian Mint’s latest silver coin

By |2024-01-15T09:30:22+00:00January 15th, 2024|Categories: History, Military, Silver, Cameroon, Carpathian Mint|

The Ukrainian War's defiant Snake Island Incident is immortalised on Carpathian Mint's latest silver coin The war in Ukraine rages on to the 700-day mark, with little movement by either side of late, but it remains the defenders of Ukraine that have captured the attention of the world. With initial talk of the country being [...]

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

By |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, [...]

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

By |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 [...]

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

By |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 [...]

The fighting warriors of Ukraine, past and present, are celebrated in high-relief silver with ‘Battle Hardened’

By |2023-10-10T13:43:59+01:00October 10th, 2023|Categories: Coloured, Military, Silver, Ghana, MintXXI|

The fighting warriors of Ukraine, past and present, are celebrated in high-relief silver with 'Battle Hardened' On February 24th 2022, The Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. Expected to last just 3 days, apparently, the war (not a 'Special Military Operation'), has turned into a spectacular failure for Russia. The price they have, are, and will continue [...]

Enduring Soldiers “Warszyc” silver coin (2023 National Bank of Poland)

By |2023-08-31T17:27:53+01:00August 31st, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, History, Coloured, Military, Silver, Narodowy Bank, Poland|

A long-running series at the Narodowy Bank (National Bank of Poland), its full title is The Enduring Soldiers Accursed by the Communists, and it remembers the soldiers in Poland that continued the fight against the Communists after the Second World War. Surprisingly, few have much knowledge of this period, which was mainly clouded by the celebrations [...]

An icon of the firearms world, the Mauser C96, comes to numismatics with a shaped, gilded silver coin

By |2023-07-07T13:59:42+01:00July 7th, 2023|Categories: Military, Gilded, Science, Silver, Chad, World Coin Appreciation|

An icon of the firearms world, the Mauser C96, comes to numismatics with a shaped, gilded silver coin The Mauser C96, also known as the "Broomhandle Mauser," is a highly distinctive semi-automatic pistol that gained iconic status in the early 20th century. Designed by Paul Mauser and introduced in 1896, it featured a unique broomhandle-shaped grip, [...]

Ukraine’s cultural identity, and its current turmoil, are used to aid the beleaguered country with charitable coins

By |2023-05-30T13:20:12+01:00May 30th, 2023|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Coloured, Military, Silver, Ghana, MintXXI, Niue Island|

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 [...]

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