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11Aug 26

Fors Fortuna gold and silver minted bar range (2026 Le Grand Mint)

By |August 11th, 2026|Categories: Quicklooks, Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Gold Bar, Silver Bar, Silver, Le Grand Mint|0 Comments

After a fine debut last March, Le Grand Mint have launched the second of their Fors Fortuna bars with a new design by the same talented Italian artist, Carmen Testa. It features the Roman goddess of fortune, and the personification of luck, a popular deity in the civilisation centred around the modern Italian capital over 2,000 years ago. She was worshipped in a sacellum (a small, open-roof shrine) on the right bank of [...]

11Aug 26

United Crypto States continues to merge silver and Bitcoin with its latest release celebrating ancient Ukrainian culture

By |August 11th, 2026|Categories: Politics & Finance, Gilded, Ruthenium / Rhodium, Silver, Cryptocurrency, MintXXI|0 Comments

United Crypto States continues to merge silver and Bitcoin with its latest release celebrating ancient Ukrainian culture The Mint XXI produced range of cryptocurrency-denominated silver coins, ‘United Crypto States’ (UCS), has added a new coin today, and to a subset that, we feel, is the best of them. Called 'Cradle of Freedom', it joins 'The Wings of Freedom', and a trio of 'The Land of Freedom' coins in celebrating the culture and [...]

10Aug 26

Homer’s 2,800 year old epic poem, ‘The Odyssey’, hasn’t just launched a hit film, its hero inspired a new silver coin

By |August 10th, 2026|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Coloured, Silver, Niue Island, T&S Coins|0 Comments

Homer's 2,800 year old epic poem, 'The Odyssey', hasn't just launched a hit film, its hero inspired a new silver coin Composed of 24 passages, and written by the Greek poet Homer over 28 centuries ago, the Odyssey is an epic poem. It tells the story of the return home from the Trojan War of the Greek hero Odysseus. After a decade away fighting, it takes an additional ten years to [...]

10Aug 26

The Divine Comedy Inferno 9 gram silver medal (2026 Hobo Coin)

By |August 10th, 2026|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Medallion, Silver, Hobo Coins|0 Comments

An Italian poet (1265-1321), Dante is widely lauded for his three part ‘Divine Comedy’ which is not only considered the greatest literary work in the Italian language, but also one of the most important of the Middle Ages. He eschewed the traditional use of Latin so that more people would have access to his writing, helping to set the local Tuscan dialect on its path to becoming the modern Italian language. [...]

07Aug 26

Powercoin continues its award-winning Camouflage of Nature with a superbly stylised tiger silver coin

By |August 7th, 2026|Categories: Nature, Coloured, Silver, Cook Islands, Powercoin|0 Comments

Powercoin continues its award-winning Camouflage of Nature with a superbly stylised tiger silver coin The third in Powercoin's awesome 'Camouflage of Nature' series launches today, and continues with a second big cat, always a popular subject. The series debuted in 2023 with a stunning Zebra [...]

06Aug 26

Out of Space is Allcollect’s out of this world coin formed from meteorite material almost as old as the Earth itself

By |August 6th, 2026|Categories: Other material, Allcollect, Nature, Niue Island|0 Comments

Out of Space is Allcollect's out of this world coin formed from meteorite material almost as old as the Earth itself It wasn't so long ago that meteorite coins were a recurring feature of the numismatic calendar, with heavyweight producers like CIT, Numiscollect, and Mint XXI [...]

05Aug 26

Tyrannosaurus Rex 1oz proof silver coin (2026 Royal Canadian Mint)

By |August 5th, 2026|Categories: Quicklooks, Nature, Coloured, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|0 Comments

After releasing a superb, but expensive, dinosaur coin just a couple of weeks ago, the Royal Canadian Mint has issued a dino coin with a more affordable price tag, and it's one that also employs the considerable talents of Canadian palaeoartist Julius Csotonyi. As you can [...]

04Aug 26

Women Warriors 06: Gladiatrix 2oz silver coin (2026 Carpathian Mint)

By |August 4th, 2026|Categories: Quicklooks, History, Silver, Carpathian Mint, Niue Island|0 Comments

At one time, the two-ounce, antiqued, high-relief silver, ancient mythology coin, was everywhere, with plenty of fine designs, but also with lots of unfinished series, which often frustrated collectors. Carpathian Mint's 'Women Warriors' series is one that has some fine designs, but importantly, continues to add them [...]

04Aug 26

Fender 80th Anniversary 1 gram gold bar (2026 MKS PAMP)

By |August 4th, 2026|Categories: Quicklooks, Cast/Minted Bar, Art & Literature, Gold Bar, Bullion, PAMP|0 Comments

PAMP has done a fine job with their Fender guitar licence, featuring a brilliant range of guitar-shaped coins in various historical styles and colours, and a range of guitar-picks, which are actually usable. To that, we can add gold bars, specifically this relatively affordable one-gram release that [...]

31Jul 26

A sci-fi horror movie that changed the genre provides fertile inspiration for Spectres new Alien Dagger silver coin

By |July 31st, 2026|Categories: Art & Literature, Miniatures, Silver, Samoa, Spectres|0 Comments

A sci-fi horror movie that changed the genre provides fertile inspiration for Spectres new Alien Dagger silver coin "In space, no one can hear you scream." With that tagline, Alien burst onto movie screens in 1979 and forever changed science-fiction horror. Previously full of rubber-suited actors [...]

30Jul 26

Guns, bombs, ninjas, and The Last Supper. Mint of MK and Silver Pours keep up their reputation for weird and unique coins

By |July 30th, 2026|Categories: Military, Gilded, Miniatures, Silver, Ghana, Liberia, Mint of MK, Niue Island, Silver Pours|0 Comments

Guns, bombs, ninjas, and The Last Supper. Mint of MK and Silver Pours keep up their reputation for weird and unique coins We can always rely on Mint of MK and Silver Pours to put out some of the more esoteric coins we see here, and they've [...]

28Jul 26

Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, created the Heirloom Seal of the Realm to mark his power. Spectres reimagines it in silver.

By |July 28th, 2026|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Miniatures, Silver, Niue Island, Spectres|0 Comments

Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, created the Heirloom Seal of the Realm to mark his power. Spectres reimagines it in silver. For centuries, what is now China was a mass of disparate fiefdoms controlled by warlords, and fighting between them was constant. Born [...]

24Jul 26

Dinosaurs are back at the Royal Canadian Mint, along with butterfly and native turtle coins, just like July at the Perth Mint

By |July 24th, 2026|Categories: Art & Literature, Nature, Coloured, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|0 Comments

Dinosaurs are back at the Royal Canadian Mint, along with butterfly and native turtle coins, just like July at the Perth Mint Like the Perth Mint yesterday, it's also been a while since we featured new coins from the Royal Canadian Mint, but again, they're back [...]

23Jul 26

The Perth Mint flexes its considerable nature skills with a butterfly, and a heavily stylised Yaunati Turtle

By |July 23rd, 2026|Categories: Art & Literature, Australia, Nature, Coloured, Silver, Perth Mint|0 Comments

The Perth Mint flexes its considerable nature skills with a butterfly, and a heavily stylised Yaunati Turtle It's been a while since we dove into the Perth Mint's output, but they're back on our radar this month with two new nature-themed, two-ounce silver coins, which are [...]

22Jul 26

PAMP adds new gold and silver bars to its extensive range, including the fourth and final release in its ‘Nature’s Grip’ series

By |July 22nd, 2026|Categories: Cast/Minted Bar, Culture, Silver Bar, Movies & TV, Bullion, Nature, Gold, Silver, Niue Island, PAMP|0 Comments

PAMP adds new gold and silver bars to its extensive range, including the fourth and final release in its 'Nature's Grip' series Swiss precious metal legends, PAMP (Produits Artistiques Métaux Précieux), have long been one of the leaders in issuing bars with a wide range of [...]

20Jul 26

Germania Beasts concludes with its fourth release, Sleipnir, the eight-legged war horse of the god, Odin

By |July 20th, 2026|Categories: Culture, Bullion, Gilded, Ruthenium / Rhodium, Silver, Germania Mint|0 Comments

Germania Beasts concludes with its fourth release, Sleipnir, the eight-legged war horse of the god, Odin Part of their extensive reimagining of the history and mythology of the ancient lands of the Germanic peoples, Germania Beasts was a bi-annual look at some of the greatest creatures [...]

16Jul 26

Deadly & Dangerous Red Back Spider 20th Anniversary gold & silver coins (2026 Downies)

By |July 16th, 2026|Categories: Quicklooks, Nature, Coloured, Gold, Silver, Downies, Niue Island, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|0 Comments

Well here's a real blast from the past! Back in 2006, the Perth Mint launched the first Deadly & Dangerous coin, and it was an instant hit, gaining popularity and acclaim in equal measure. Since then, and despite the odds as so few series hit the two-decade milestone, [...]

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