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24Mar 25

King Arthur’s legendary blade, the sword Excalibur, launches MK’s new ‘Melee Weapons’ series of dimensional silver coins

By |March 24th, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, Miniatures, Silver, Cameroon, Mint of MK|2 Comments

King Arthur's legendary blade, the sword Excalibur, launches MK's new 'Melee Weapons' series of dimensional silver coins We seem to be having a bit of a dimensional weapons day today, and after a Quicklook at Coins Today's latest offering earlier today, here we're with Mint of MK's new addition. Just a few weeks ago, they debuted their new miniature RPG-7 rocket propelled grenade launcher coin, but this time, we're on [...]

24Mar 25

Divine Weapons: Zeus Thunderbolt antiqued 2oz silver miniature (2025 Coins Today)

By |March 24th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Miniatures, Silver, Coins Today KR|0 Comments

Back in January, we reported on the debut of a new series of miniatures from Coin's Today called 'Divine Weapons' the first of which was the Thunderbolt of Zeus. This was a limited antiqued miniature, with some quite extensive gilded highlighting. Now, the South Korean producer has launched the more common antiqued variant, We won't go into too much detail here, as you can head on over to the original article for more [...]

20Mar 25

Four Horsemen Red Horse 2oz cast silver bar (2025 Carpathian Mint)

By |March 20th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Bullion, Coloured, Silver, Carpathian Mint|0 Comments

The second of the two new Carpathian Mint coloured, two-ounce cast silver bars released today is our favourite of the pair, part of their Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse range. This is also the second release, although this series will have four in total, and follows the earlier 'White Horse' bar. We reckon the Red Horse is an even better design, very powerful and attractive imagery, and certainly getting over the point [...]

20Mar 25

Grim Reaper II 2oz cast silver bar (2025 Carpathian Mint)

By |March 20th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Bullion, Coloured, Silver, Carpathian Mint|0 Comments

The Carpathian Mint, amongst its often very impressive coin issues, also puts out some coloured, two-ounce cast silver bars under the Germania Mint program, and the two series currently ongoing, have both received new additions. The first one we're looking at is the second in their Grim Reaper range, showcasing imagery around everyone's favourite incarnation of death. This one looks mightily creepy, the atmosphere full of mystical electricity, and the hooded figure [...]

19Mar 25

The turning point of the Pacific Theatre in WWII, the Battle of Midway, is brought into focus on the Lithuanian Mint’s latest silver coin

By |March 19th, 2025|Categories: History, Coloured, Military, Silver, Liberia, Lithuanian Mint|0 Comments

The turning point of the Pacific Theatre in WWII, the Battle of Midway, is brought into focus on the Lithuanian Mint's latest silver coin Battles that change the direction of a war are few and far between. Many wars grind on for years, going back [...]

17Mar 25

Let’s have a catchup of new pop-culture coin and foil releases from the masters of them, Agoro by the New Zealand Mint

By |March 17th, 2025|Categories: Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint/Agoro|0 Comments

Let's have a catchup of new pop-culture coin and foil releases from the masters of them, Agoro by the New Zealand Mint They've been busy little beavers down in New Zealand, where Agoro, the collectible department of the New Zealand Mint, is based, and it's [...]

14Mar 25

Music Legends, the numismatic celebration of British music, continues with the Beatles icon, John Lennon

By |March 14th, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|0 Comments

Music Legends, the numismatic celebration of British music, continues with the Beatles icon, John Lennon The tenth in the Royal Mints long-running Music Legends range continues today with the addition of a quite superb John Lennon design, joining last year's fellow Beatle, Paul McCartney. However, [...]

12Mar 25

The Royal Mint’s ‘Queens Beasts Completer’ coins make the transition to gold and silver bullion bars

By |March 12th, 2025|Categories: Silver Bar, Gold Bar, Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, History, Gold, Royal Mint|0 Comments

The Royal Mint's 'Queens Beasts Completer' coins make the transition to gold and silver bullion bars From 2016 to 2021, the Royal Mint ran a programme of bullion coins called 'The Queen's Beasts', featuring representations of ten heraldic animals originally sculpted by James Woodford RA [...]

11Mar 25

Odin’s legendary spear, Gungnir, is the latest mythological weapon of war to get the silver miniature treatment

By |March 11th, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, Miniatures, Silver, Spectres|0 Comments

Odin's legendary spear, Gungnir, is the latest mythological weapon of war to get the silver miniature treatment One of the richest, and most beloved of the ancient mythologies, is that of the Norse peoples. The pantheon of deities is both expansive, and full of fascinating characters, [...]

10Mar 25

A stunning stackable bust of Venus, and a set of cupcakes, comprise Coin’s Today’s latest silver oddities

By |March 10th, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, Bullion, Bullion Round, Silver, Coins Today KR|1 Comment

A stunning stackable bust of Venus, and a set of cupcakes, comprise Coin's Today's latest silver oddities South Korean producer, Coin's Today, has been busy, and we've got another pair of new issues which display the usual mix of inventiveness, and quality design. One of [...]

07Mar 25

Le Grand Mint adds two new gold and silver minted bar designs – The Eagle and the Serpent, and Fors Fortuna

By |March 7th, 2025|Categories: Silver Bar, Gold Bar, Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Culture, Nature, Le Grand Mint|0 Comments

Le Grand Mint adds two new gold and silver minted bar designs - The Eagle and the Serpent, and Fors Fortuna Along with a fine and uniquely designed range of proof and bullion coins, Le Grand Mint also produces some neat minted bars, something we haven't [...]

06Mar 25

The Cretaceous extinction event that ended the reign of the dinosaurs is fertile inspiration for Numiscollect’s latest silver coin

By |March 6th, 2025|Categories: History, Coloured, Nature, Silver, Palau, Numiscollect|0 Comments

The Cretaceous extinction event that ended the reign of the dinosaurs is fertile inspiration for Numiscollect's latest silver coin Mass extinctions are short geological periods in which a large percentage of the Earth's biodiversity disappears, even down to microbial life. Our world has experienced at [...]

06Mar 25

Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle silver coin (2025 Mint of Poland)

By |March 6th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Cameroon, Mint of Poland|0 Comments

The Mint of Poland's long-running 'Treasures of World Painting' series of silver coin travels to a darker place with 'Dark Edition'. The series of square coins reproduces famous works of art, not just the iconic ones, but some of the more esoteric ones as well. Dark Edition [...]

05Mar 25

Mary Poppins gold and silver coins (2025 The Royal Mint)

By |March 5th, 2025|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Coloured, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|0 Comments

The Royal Mint continues in its quest to distil all of British history and culture down to its 50 pence coin range with the addition of a new coin featuring the most famous work of Australian-British author Pamela Lyndon Travers, 'Mary Poppins'. As always with the Royal [...]

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