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 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 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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is more of a test post, so bear with me. Every month or so, we usually do a round-up of all the guides that have been updated, but that often means it can be several weeks from updating to informing readers of it. Moving forward, we'll do one of these Quicklook modals on the day [...]
Powercoin's Camouflage of Nature moves from prey to predator with a leopard in hiding coin The first coin in this series, Camouflage of Nature', debuted last September, and was easily one of the best designs released in 2022. A striking merging of geometry and nature, it took an iconic image and perfectly translated it to a numismatic [...]
Mint XXI Summer '23: Animals in nature, mythology, and finance feature on new coins We're going to have a look at seven coins, about half the total number in Mint XXI's summer range, and spread them over three posts. This is the first of them, There's quite a varied selection, with the highlight for us [...]
Penned by noted 19th century Australian ornithologist, John Gould, Downies issues its second Birds of Australia coin It was only four months ago that we looked at the first in a new series of nature coins from Australian producer, Downies, themed around the bird world, and featuring the Eastern Rosella, a member of the parrot family. [...]
The Perth Mint releases a stunning Asian-iinspired Koi fish silver coin crushing the scales at two kilograms An extremely rare format for the modern collectible coin market, two kilos is quite a beast compared to the usual 1–2 ounces, that make up the vast bulk of the market today. However, the Perth Mint likes to dabble, [...]
