Royal Mint opens the voting for their Coin of the Year poll
Royal Mint opens the voting for their Coin of the Year poll The Royal Mint has opened the voting to choose Britain's favourite coin design of 2021. There are 35 designs in the poll, with a simple vote button under each, so head on over and make a choice. If I'm honest, it's a fairly lacklustre selection this year, with only some classics like the Sovereign and the Gothic Crown really [...]
Korea’s Buddhist heritage is beautifully reproduced with Coins Today’s latest half-kilo silver bullion bar
Korea's Buddhist heritage is beautifully reproduced with Coins Today's latest half-kilo silver bullion bar Commissioned by pious people, votive steles in Korea were erected in courtyards and public spaces and were essentially stone tablets replete with carved scenes of Buddhist life and myth. A particularly fine example sits in Cheongju National Museum in Korea, one covered in 20 seated Buddha's on one side, and the other in what is called [...]
JVP’s Liberator bullion round expands with a very varied range of proof and coloured versions
JVP's Liberator bullion round expands with a very varied range of proof and coloured versions Launching in July this year, JVP Coins returned with a striking new bullion round in silver and gold called 'Liberator'. Tapping into that whole Punisher/gun-culture vibe, it was quite an in-your-face design, and something a bit different from what usually makes up this market these days. A week later, we received details of the proof [...]
MARVEL MINI-HERO #4 – THOR (2021 Crown Mint)
The fourth in the Crown Mint's Marvel Mini Hero series of shaped one-ounce coins joins Captain America, Iron Man, and Black Panther as it works its way through an ambitious 24-coin program. Like those, Thor Odinson is a very neat and well done depiction of a hugely popular character done in an almost TV animation style. It works especially well in this case.The proof coloured coin comes packaged in a custom blister pack [...]
Niue and PiK Coins debut an atmospheric Al Capone silver coin to launch the new ‘Gangsters’ series
Niue and PiK Coins debut an atmospheric Al Capone silver coin to launch the new 'Gangsters' series Murder, extortion, bootlegging, prostitution, bribery, and tax evasion - the life of a gangster is a busy one. Nobody epitomises that more than the classic mobster, Alphonse Gabriel Capone, [...]
SPOCK & GIMLI CHIBI (2021 NZ Mint)
Just sneaking into 2021 is the last pair of the New Zealand Mint's 'Chibi' coins, a year that has seen over 40 of them be issued. In light of that, we're not going to dwell on them too much, and suggest heading over to our very comprehensive [...]
Steve McQueen, a movie legend and the epitome of cool, gets his own epically cool bullion coin
Steve McQueen, a movie legend and the epitome of cool, gets his own epically cool bullion coin Like James Dean, Steve McQueen became one of those film legends that burned brightly, but had their light extinguished before their time. Throughout the 60's and early 70's, McQueen [...]
Lick that cookie, or the man with the gun is coming!! An umbrella coin inspired by a hit South Korean TV show debuts
Lick that cookie, or the man with the gun is coming!! An umbrella coin inspired by a hit South Korean TV show debuts We're inundated with fake excellence on a daily basis. Constantly told what is, or isn't, good by those trying to latch onto the [...]
We’re back after a some server issues
We're back after a some server issues Huge apologies to all for the server issues we've had over the weekend. They started around midnight on Friday and carried on until about five minutes ago. We're hoping the issue is fixed, but the cause is still being investigated [...]
Assassins silver coin series returns with the Knights Templar, enemy of the famed Nizari that terrorised the Crusaders
Assassins silver coin series returns with the Knights Templar, enemy of the famed Nizari that terrorised the Crusaders On the surface of it, the choice of the Knight Templar for the second 'Assassins' coin might seem a bit of a stretch. The Order was better known [...]
A superb miniature of Boba Fett headlines our last round-up of film & TV themed coins in 2021
A superb miniature of Boba Fett headlines our last round-up of film & TV themed coins in 2021 The last round-up of film and television coins in 2021, and it's one dominated by the New Zealand Mint, offset by just a single release from APMEX. [...]
Numiscollect’s ‘Growing Up’ series of silver coins charting the life cycle of animals, continues with the Stallion
Numiscollect's 'Growing Up' series of silver coins charting the life cycle of animals, continues with the Stallion A very pretty coin was launched by Numiscollect earlier this year, the first in its new 'Growing Up' series, which gave us a glimpse into the life-cycle of the [...]
PMC’s large and stunning ‘Nine Worthies’ follows up the debut Hector of Troy with Joshua & King Arthur
Singapore-based producer, Precious Metal Collectors (PMC) have impressed us over the last year with a very impressive range of copper-cored silver coins. What these are is pretty simple in theory. You take an amount of silver, in this case two ounces, and instead of just strking a design into it [...]
AUSTRALIAN SOVEREIGN 165TH PIEDFORT VERSION (2020, Perth Mint)
The first overseas branch of the British Empire's Royal Mint was opened in Sydney, Australia in 1855. In a rare turn of events, the mint was empowered to actually produce Sovereigns, rather than just export the prodigous amount of mined gold back to the United Kingdom for [...]
The Royal Mint’s ‘Innovation in Science’ series celebrates Rosalind Franklin’s groundbreaking work with DNA
In amongst all the intellectual giants that have inhabited the world of science and technology, there are those equally worthy of recognition, but haven't received it for one reason or another. One such scientist is Rosalind Franklin, who contributed groundbreaking work to one of our most important fields, yet was [...]
PENGUIN SERIES: GENTOO PENGUIN (2020, Pobjoy Mint)
The British Pobjoy Mint's long love affair with the penguin continues with the release of the second of four 50p coins in their 2020 collection. These collections originated in 2017 with a 4-coin set issued for the Falkland Islands, followed by a similar set of 5 the [...]
PREDATORS: RATTLESNAKE BULLION (2020, AllCollect)
Just last week we did a Quicklook at Panthera Tigris, the fourth issue in Allcollect’s Predators bullion coin series. We noted at the time that several other issues were in the wings, appearing at various places in a fairly haphazard way, but we'll cover them as they [...]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Giant Headed Coins. Chibi comes to Hogwarts
Harry Potter and the Order of the Giant Headed Coins. Chibi comes to Hogwarts After the hugely successful debut of the New Zealand Mint;s Chibi coins with the sell out Batman, the concept returns with a first dip into the world of Harry Potter. Choosing to [...]