World's oldest film school is celebrated by Russia with a silver centenary coin Founded back in 1919 by the film director Vladimir Gardin, the Moscow Film School is the oldest running film school in the world. Responsible for countless famous names in Russian and Soviet cinema over the next 100 years and [...]
Scottsdale returns to Samoa for its second annual Seahorse silver bullion coin, and doubles the choice of finish The Samoa Seahorse bullion coin is back and it has reappeared with two finishes this time. Launching last year for the first time, the Samoa Seahorse from Scottsdale Mint was a pretty coin with [...]
The bond between the UK and the USA forged by WWII is celebrated on Pobjoy's Uncle Sam & Britannia coin Two national icons - Uncle Sam and Britannia - are pictured together on the Pobjoy Mints coin that celebrates the coming together of these two great powers to fight the rising tide of [...]
Captain Picard kicks off a new six-foil series featuring the Next-Gen crew of the Enterprise-D Star Trek in its many forms is no stranger to the modern collectible coin market. Initially the licence was run by the Perth Mint, who released several series over the next few years, and continue to do so. [...]
Australia reproduces its Kookaburra Penny designs a century after they were trialled Produced in the post Great War period from 1919 to 1921, the pattern Kookaburra coins were an attempt to revise the countries currency with new shapes, sizes and metals. After just a few hundred of the coins wer eproduced in sample form, [...]
Aladdin joins Sinbad and Ali Baba in the NZ Mint's Legendary tales silver coin series Legendary Tales is a series of 1oz silver coins featuring some of the iconic stories told in that classic collection, Arabian Nights. We've already seen Sinbad, and Ali Baba brought to life, and now it's [...]
Italy continues its silver Explorers Series with Christopher Columbus and his naval voyages The Italian mint, IPZS, kick-started a new series of €10 silver coins last year, designed to celebrate the accomplishments of some of the world's great explorers. The first issue was a fine look at Marco Polo and his epic travels [...]
We've updated lots of coin profiles and guides and added new ones The changes, updates and refinements continue in the background and we've quite a few this month. On the Coin Series Profile front, we've added them for Numiscollect's 'Archaeology & Symbolism' series, and MDM's Shapes of Wildlife programme, of which the third (Shapes of [...]
Darth Vader is back, and going dimensional with the NZ Mint's latest flagship coin The Star Wars juggernaut has clearly been a big hit for the New Zealand Mint, and only the last six years we've seen a huge selection of coins covering all aspects of the movie universe. Encompassing bullion coins, [...]
Russia issues three silver coins to mark the work of its Nuclear Support Units ForThe Central Bank of Russia has long had a penchant for celebrating some very off the wall subjects with a selection of eclectic coins. In a country with a political system like Russia, the goverment isn't just seen as a [...]
