King Charles III Definitive Collection of UK circulating currency features nature, a subject close to his heart

By |2023-10-12T20:06:01+01:00October 12th, 2023|Categories: Bi-Metallic, Nature, Politics & Finance, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

King Charles III Definitive Collection of UK circulating currency features nature, a subject close to his heart British circulating currency, especially since decimalisation, has seen a rise in popularity amongst collectors, with the iconic heptagonal fifty-pence coin attracting particular attention. The mintages on them vary tremendously, but it's the wide mix of designs that appear to [...]

In a world of double-giant dino’s. what better than a Double Silver Giant coin? MDM returns with a fourth hybrid prehistoric coin

By |2023-09-18T13:06:21+01:00September 18th, 2023|Categories: Copper, Nature, Silver, MDM, Vanuatu|

In a world of double-giant dino's. what better than a Double Silver Giant coin? MDM returns with a fourth hybrid prehistoric coin MDM's 'Double Silver Giant' series of prehistoric animal coins returns with a fourth issue, and following superb T.Rex, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus designs, we head to the air with Pteranodon. These are similar in [...]

Evolution of Life: Nimravidae silver and gold coins (2023 CIT Coin Invest)

By |2023-09-15T13:58:36+01:00September 15th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Gilded, Gold, Nature, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Mongolia|

Now on its ninth incarnation, CIT's beautiful 'Evolution of Life' series of coins takes us on a journey through prehistory, depicting some of the amazing animals that have journeyed upon this planet over the last 500 million years. It does so in smartminted high-relief, using rose-gold gilded fossils still embedded within (antiqued silver) rock,The 2023 issue features the [...]

Vihorlat Protected Landscape Area silver coin (2023 National Bank of Slovakia)

By |2023-09-11T12:51:10+01:00September 11th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Nature, Silver, Bank of Slovakia, Slovakia|

The small national mints are often the source of some really outstanding coin designs, and this new coin from Slovakia is a fine example of a nature coin. Released to celebrate Vihorlat Protected Landscape Area, essentially a National Park, it features some of the flora and fauna indigenous to the region, and artist Roman Lugár, has done [...]

Great Hunters: Grizzly Bear silver coin (2023 Royal Canadian Mint)

By |2023-09-07T12:13:15+01:00September 7th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Gold, Nature, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

With a long history of nature coins, the Royal Canadian Mint has issued some beautiful designs over the years, none more so in our view, than the proof coins, free of gimmickry. What we're looking at here is a coin in the 'Great Hunters' series, featuring the apex predator, Grizzly Bear. It's a clean looking design, by [...]

The innovation continues in Coins Today’s Stackable silver bullion range with a three size interlocking Lotus Flower design

By |2023-09-06T15:46:09+01:00September 6th, 2023|Categories: Bullion Round, Nature, News, Silver, Coins Today KR|

The innovation continues in Coins Today's Stackable silver bullion range with a three size interlocking Lotus Flower design It was only a few days ago, with our coverage of Germania Mint's new Runes series, that we said 'simple ideas are almost always the most effective', and the latest in a comprehensive range of stackable silver offerings [...]

Coins Today’s stackable silver bullion range grows a foot. A bear foot to be precise

By |2023-09-01T19:54:35+01:00September 1st, 2023|Categories: Bullion Round, Nature, Silver, Coins Today KR|

Coins Today’s stackable silver bullion range grows a foot. A bear foot to be precise South Korean producer, Coin's Today (CTK), continues its drive to dominate the esoteric end of the bullion market with the latest in their long line of stackable silver bullion rounds. Covering a wide swathe of subjects from future tech to ancient mythology, [...]

Prehistoric Life Stegosaurus bullion coins (2023 Emporium Hamburg)

By |2023-08-31T22:22:35+01:00August 31st, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Gold, Nature, Silver, Congo, Emporium Hamburg|

Our love affair with dinosaurs is well known, so it goes without saying that Emporium Hamburg's 'Prehistoric Life' range of bullion coins has been popular here, a bit of an understatement, in fact. A series of twelve coins issued over four years, the Stegosaurus pictured here is, sadly, the last of them.It keeps all those neat little touches [...]

Big 5 Africa Cape Buffalo bullion coin (2023 South African Mint)

By |2023-08-31T20:20:50+01:00August 31st, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Bullion, Gold, Nature, Palladium, Silver, South Africa, South African Mint|

The South African Mint's excellent 'Big 5' series of nature coins continues its journey through the five beasts for the second time, with the release of the last coin in Series II, and our favourite of them all, the Cape buffalo. Another fine designs, and each carries the same obverse that adorned their respective animals in series [...]

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