King Arthur’s legendary blade, the sword Excalibur, launches MK’s new ‘Melee Weapons’ series of dimensional silver coins
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 [...]
Divine Weapons: Zeus Thunderbolt antiqued 2oz silver miniature (2025 Coins Today)
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 [...]
Four Horsemen Red Horse 2oz cast silver bar (2025 Carpathian Mint)
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 [...]
Grim Reaper II 2oz cast silver bar (2025 Carpathian Mint)
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
White Wind Dress 3.8 g silver pendant coin (2025 Lithuanian Mint)
A new coin from the Lithuanian Mint joins the relatively uncommon wearable's genre with a format made to be worn like a pendent. It bares a simple, stylish design, with a very Marilyn Monroe-esque depiction of a woman in an up blown white dress. Inset into her [...]
Gods: Ull 2oz cast silver bar (2025 Germania Mint)
The second of Germania Mint's own series in their coloured cast 2oz silver bar program, one used by many other producers to bring designs to market, was Gods, closely following the now complete Goddesses series of six designs. Gods is also a six-bar range, and we suspect [...]
Let’s have a catchup of new pop-culture coin and foil releases from the masters of them, Agoro by the New Zealand Mint
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 [...]
Big Five 03: Leopard 2oz cast silver bar (2025 Royal Krakow Mint)
The Royal Kraków Mint's series of cast two-ounce silver bars, under the Germania Mint program, continues to grow with the addition of the third of the bars in their African Big Five series. The two previous issues featured the lion and the elephant, and for this third [...]
Music Legends, the numismatic celebration of British music, continues with the Beatles icon, John Lennon
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, [...]
The Royal Mint’s ‘Queens Beasts Completer’ coins make the transition to gold and silver bullion bars
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 [...]
Odin’s legendary spear, Gungnir, is the latest mythological weapon of war to get the silver miniature treatment
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, [...]
A stunning stackable bust of Venus, and a set of cupcakes, comprise Coin’s Today’s latest silver oddities
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 [...]
Le Grand Mint adds two new gold and silver minted bar designs – The Eagle and the Serpent, and Fors Fortuna
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 [...]
The Cretaceous extinction event that ended the reign of the dinosaurs is fertile inspiration for Numiscollect’s latest silver coin
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 [...]
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle silver coin (2025 Mint of Poland)
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 [...]
Mary Poppins gold and silver coins (2025 The Royal Mint)
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 [...]
Niobium Digitalisation silver & niobium coin (2025 Austrian Mint)
Launched way back in 2003, to much acclaim, the Austrian Mint's innovative Niobium series was quite unlike anything else out there at the time. A silver ring, inset into which is a disc made of a metal called niobium. This is quite unusual in that it can [...]