February 2025: Lots of guide updates in the bullion and numismatic profiles I've been busy updating some of the guides and profiles over the site. It's a monumentally tedious job, but essential, as nobody wants to look at a profile if it's full of gaps. I still have a few new ones in the early [...]
Powercoin debuts 'Other Life', a coin following the tranformation of a digital wireframe tiger, to its powerful reality With science pushing further and further into the natural world, and the merging of the two coming closer and closer to reality, it's of little surprise that imagery linking the two is becoming more commonplace. It isn't [...]
The Legendary Monkey King gets kitted out with Mint of MK's extraordinary, and quite huge, gilded cudgel and headband coins Sun Wukong, the legendary Monkey King, is one of the main characters in the famous 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, although his origin can be traced back centuries earlier to the Song Dynasty (10th-13th [...]
It isn't just the wildlife Down Under that's brightly coloured and capable of finishing you off, it seems the food is as well! Fairy bread is a favourite for kids, and no doubt adults, in Australia and New Zealand, and is basically a buttered slice of bread covered in hundreds and thousands (sprinkles). Easy to make, easy to [...]
The Lithuanian Mint goes from 1850's California, to the Roaring 1920's of New York with two new Liberian high-relief silver coins We've long been partial to the Lithuanian Mint, especially for their eclectic designs, often emanating from the creative minds of local artists, like the superb 'World of Cryptids' series, and the pretty 'Elements' series. [...]
Still powering on after two decades, Downies Collectables 'Deadly & Dangerous' series of coloured proof coins continues with a 20th annual release. It says something about the general malevolence of Australian wildlife that a series depicting it can still be going strong for so long, but there are still plenty of unsung villains still not covered. The [...]
The Royal Australian Mint has been issuing some fine bullion coins of late, and their Lunar Calendar range is one of the more popular. We've covered most of them to date, and you can see the whole range, along with most of the RAM's recent output, in our comprehensive Bullion Profile summary of them all.However, there's been a [...]
Today, we're going to be using our Quicklooks to catch up on some of the new bullion releases, and the first of them is the ninth issue in The Royal Mint's 'Myths & Legends' range. This purportedly 12-coin series is divided into four groups of three coins, (although it's possible it may stop at this ninth issue, after [...]
Tudor Beasts adds its eighth of ten designs with the arrival of the Greyhound of Richmond in gold and silver proof form Tudor Beasts returns today with the eighth of ten designs in this classic heraldic series of coins from the Royal Mint. Designed by David Lawrence, they're based on statues (King’s Beasts) that adorn the Moat [...]
Big Monday: CIT celebrates the legendary mountain, The Matterhorn, and smartmints a mountainous two-kilo silver coin One of the most legendary mountains in Europe, and one on which over 500 people have lost their lives, the Matterhorn isn't famous for its height - it's only the 12th highest peak in Western Europe - but its soaring [...]
