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 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 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' 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 [...]
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 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
In our view, one of the finest numismatic series of the last few years, the National Bank of Poland's 'Treasures of Stanislaw August' reproduces a series of medallions commissioned by the Polish King at the time, Stanisław August Poniatowski. They feature a selection of kings and queens of Poland, with a few notable exceptions (he didn't like some [...]
After a trip to the Vikings for 2022, MDM's shaped helmet coin range returns to Greece with the warriors of Troy The subject of countless books, movies and other media, the Trojan War, despite the relative lack of evidence for its details, has entered popular culture as a pivotal event in the ancient world. Said by later [...]
