The 2024 Eastern Caribbean 8 bullion program had a very late start, but Scottsdale Mint has released them at such an accelerated rate that they’ve already caught up with the issue of these final two designs, one for the volcanic island of Montserrat, and one for the island I spent almost two years on, Anguilla.

Montserrat has some wonderful sealife around it, despite the tumultuous geology, and that’s represented here by a starfish. While the creature itself is portrayed in a realistic manner, the whole design is more stylised overall. The Anguilla coin is prettier, in my view, but the depiction of the island in the background is hugely unrealistic. Anguilla is quite flat, and not very lush. The boat looks good, but the setting is way off. Despite that, as a coin, it looks great in silver bullion form, in particular.

As usual, there are clean silver and gold coins, and coloured silver and gold coins, all an ounce in weight. These should be available to order now. Given how quick the 2024 program has been concluded, we suspect we won’t have to wait long for the 2025 range to kick off. We have a comprehensive three-page Bullion Profile of the series, where you can see every issue to date, including the four variants each of these final 2024 additions.