Mint of MK have been exceptionally busy of late, so this week we look at their latest releases in our round-up (Week 48, 2024) After a horrible two weeks with what turned out to be a kind of flu, I'm getting back to normal, and didn't want to miss our regular weekly round-up of new releases. [...]
The Royal Mint adds a ninth British star to their Music Legends series, and it's the legendary ex-Beatle, Paul McCartney The Royal Mints popular Music Legends range continues today with the launch of the ninth in the series to date. A wide range of proof formats make up the series, in both gold and silver, [...]
A ginger in the Big Apple rounds out Pik Coin's pretty 'Cats in the City' trilogy of 100-gram cast silver bars Back in July, we covered the first of PiK Coin's new three-piece series of 100 gram cast bars, called 'Cats in the City'. That one depicted a coloured image of a British Shorthair cat [...]
The legendary literary masterpiece, Don Quixote, inspires a quirky, and amazing new coin over at T&S Coins. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was in September 1547 and, like Shakespeare, is widely regarded as the greatest writer in his native language, in his case Spanish. Cervantes had a far more interesting life outside of literature than Shakespeare [...]
The One Who Waits - the Grim Reaper - launches a chilling new six-coin series called 'Figures of Death' Throughout history, cultures, including the greatest civilisations, have held a fascination with death and the afterlife. Particularly famous examples are the Aztecs, whose gruesome sacrifices to the gods of war and death are the stuff of [...]
UPDATE: Cured! Apologies for the slow news week and lack of updates - I have Covid You might have noticed a dearth of new posts this week, but unfortunately, I have Covid again. I'd love to say it's burning itself out, but it's bad case, and haven't had a meal for four days (and I love my [...]
An interesting series of coins, and a very specifically themed one, World Coin Appreciation's' Mysteries of the World series is an archaeology series, but just featuring those civilisations that sit on the North Latitude at 30 degrees. The latest coin in this series is the third to date, following 2021's Chinese Shu culture, and 2022s Ancient [...]
KOMSCO arms the legendary Chiwoo Cheonwang with an exquisite dragon-head sword formed in 2.5 ounces of silver Purveyors of some of the most unusual silver pieces on the market today, Coin's Today, seem to have others to join them. They've long partnered with the Korean Mint, KOMSCO, and it's there that the inspiration seems to [...]
The most varied selection yet in our weekly look at some of the new coin releases (Week 47, 2024) A bit later than normal, here's our weekly round-up of some of the more interesting releases that have come to our attention over the last week. We should have been live on Friday, but we had a small [...]
Spectres heads to Ancient Rome, with Julius Caesar, the second in its Masters of War high-relief silver coin series Even by the standards of the ancient world, the name Julius Caesar is an iconic one, perhaps even more so than the legendary Alexander the Great, who Caesar so admired. Before he became the leader of [...]
